Pleurothallis bevilacquana Carnevali & I.Ramírez 2000 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carnevali & Ramirez
Common Name Bevilacquana's Pleurothallis [Maria Pia Bevilacquana Venezuelan Botanist current]
Flower Size .2” [5 mm]
Found in Tachira state of Venezuela in tall cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, flexuous ramicauls enveloped by 2 close, tubular, brown sheaths and carryiung a single, apical, fleshy, linear-elliptic, subacute, mid nerve lightly sulcate, dorsally angled but not sulcate, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising from a small clump of tightly packed bracts at the base of the leaf, pale green, to 2.4" [ 6 cm] long, 8 or so flowered inflorescence with close-fitting, pale greeen, almost invisible floral bracts.
Similar to S dimidia and P scariosa but differs in the trilobed base of the lip and the 3 nerved petals.
Synonyms Stelis bevilacquana (Carnevali & I.Ramírez) Karremans 2019
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orchids Venezuela, ed. 2: 1141 Carnevali & Ramirez 2000 drawing fide;
Phytotaxa 406: 265 Karemans 2019 as Stelis bevilacquana
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