Pleurothallis rudolfii Pabst 1956
SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium
Photos courtesy of Luiz Filipe Varella and His Flicker Website
Drawing by Pabst
Drawing of P lasioglossa in error = P rudolfii
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Rudolf's Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Azuay province of Ecuador [P lasioglossa] and Pernambucco & Sao Paulo states of Brazil at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with a short, stout, creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, short ramicaul carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical to narrowly obovate, obtuse to acute, tridenticualte, cuneate and obscurely to narrowly petiolae base leaf that blooms in the later spring ans summer on an erect, short, .4 tp .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, successively single, to 5 flowered inflorescence with scabrous, as long as to half as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"This species may be recognized by its short secondary stem, obovate, obtuse leaves, a short raceme of successive, small, orange and purple flowers with aristate petals, and a papillose, oblong lip with a minute pair of lateral lobes and a pair of rounded basal lobes. The plant appears similar to P funerea from which it differs primarily in the scabrous floral bracts, glabrous flowers, acuminate petals, and minute triangular lateral lobes of the lip. It is more closely related to the Bolivian and Brazilian P brevipes which is distinguished by longer secondary stems, and the absence of lateral lobes of the lip." Luer 1975 as P lasioglossa
Synonyms Anathallis rudolfii (Pabst) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Lankesteriana rudolfii (Pabst) Karremans 2015; Panmorphia rudolfii (Pabst) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis lasioglossa Schltr. ex Hoehne 1936; Specklinia rudolfii (Pabst) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 14: 19 Pabst 1956
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Selbyana 1: 192 Luer 1975 as P lasioglossa drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:250 Pridgeon and Chase 2001 as Anathallis rudolfii;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia rudolfii;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia rudolfii;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankesteriana rudolfii drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana rudolfii photo fide
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