Pleurothallis miragliae Leite 1947 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Mentosae Luer 1986 Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name Miraglia's Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Sao Paulo Brazil in old forests with high humidity, partial shade and elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls carrying a single apical, light to dark green, purple blotched, flshy deeply keeled, gradually narrowing below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, 9 to 10, alternate flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms Pabstiella miragliae (Leite) Luer 2007; Specklinia miragliae (Leite) Luer 2004; Trichosalpinx miragliae (Leite) Toscano 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 lip drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia miragliae; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Pabstiella miragliae;

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