Pleurothallis saundersiana Rchb.f. 1866 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Plant and Flower in situ Sao Paulo Brazil

Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

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Common Name Saunder's Pleurothallis [English Orchid And Bromeliad Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and southeastern Brazil as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1 to 2000 meters with an erect, ramicaul enveloped basally by a few tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, rigid, green leaf that blooms in the fall to winter on a racemose, 6" [15 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the leaf with all the flowers held in one direction.

The ensitu plant photo is from Boia Ceia', Sao Paulo State, Brazil at an elevation of 2 meters in the first scrub hammock on the beach on trunks and limbs of small trees with lichen.

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

Synonyms Acianthera saundersiana ( Rchb.f. ) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pleurothallis auriculigera Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Pleurothallis felis-lingua Barb. Rodr. 1881; Pleurothallis insularis Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Pleurothallis josephensis Barb. Rodr. 1891; Pleurothallis juergensii Schltr. 1925 Specklinia saundersiana (Rchb.f.) F.Barros 1983 publ. 1984;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis bidentula; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera saundersiana; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing ok; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

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