Pleurothallis wageneriana Klotzsch 1852 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Common Name or Meaning Wagener's Pleurothallis [German Orchid Collector in Venezuela 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte or supposed epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by a few, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, thick, rigid, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a short, single flowered inflorescence with a drooping flower.

Synonyms Acianthera wageneriana (Klotzsch) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pleurothallis convexifolia Barb.Rodr. 1877; Pleurothallis dasychila Luer 1977; Pleurothallis xylobiochila Kraenzl.1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P dasychila drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 155 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P dasychila drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera wagneriana; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as P dasychila photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 Drawing fide;

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