Pleurothallis rostellata Barb.Rodr. 1877 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of © Ron Parsons
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by Barbosa Rodrigues and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Beaked Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on trees as a mini-miniature sized, repent epiphyte with an ascending, elongate, robust rhizome giving rise to erect, terete, nude ramicauls carrying a single, apical, small, fleshy, broadly obovate, slslightly subrounded emarginate and minutely tridenticulate, shortly attenuate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a short, much shorter than the leaf, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acianthera enianthera Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2010; Acianthera rostellata (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 12 Barb Rodr 1877;
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): 501 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): Tab (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgen Acianthera A second century of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator Ophidion Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Acianthera rostellata;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera rostellata photo fide
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