Pleurothallis karlii Pabst 1956 SUBGEN. Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 1986
Plant Photos by © Luiz Filipe Varella
EARLY
Common Name Karl's Pleurothallis [Gehrhard Karl Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in southeastern Brazil at elevations around 900 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, repent-ascending epiphyte with erect to suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 to 2, tubular, glabrous, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, obscurely emarginate, basally rounded, sessile leaf that blooms in the fall and early winter on a racemose, .15" [3 mm] long, successively few [4] flowered infloresence.
Synonyms Acianthera karlii (Pabst) C.N.Gonç. & Waechter 2004; Apoda-prorepentia karlii (Pabst) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Antilla karlii; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Apoda-Prorepentia karlii drawing ok
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