Pleurothallis modestissima Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Common Name or Meaning The Most Modest Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil on an erect ramicaul carrying asingle, apical, erect, oblong, acute, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms on a few flwoered, racemose, shorter than the leaf inflorescence

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

Synonyms Acianthera modestissima (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia modestissima (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera modestissima

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