Pleurothallis tigridens Loefgr. 1918 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo by © Marcelo Rodrigues
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by © Loefgren and The Plant Illustrations Website
Common Name The Tiger-Toothed Pleurothallis [refers to the teeth like projections of the column wings]
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, imbricating, orange-brown, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, flattish, elliptical, leathery, faintly conduplicate , narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, successively single, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Anathallis tigridens (Loefgr.) Luer & Toscano 2009; Panmorphia tigridens (Loefgr.) Luer 2006; Specklinia tigridens (Loefgr.) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 56 Loefgren 1918;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia tigridens;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis tigridens;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis tigridens drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis tigridens photo fide
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