Pleurothallis aristulata Lindl.1859 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Lindley 1859 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Oliver Lenhard

Full shade Warm Cool

Common Name or Meaning The Spiked Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo states of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a cylindrical, erect, ramicaul with a single, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, lanceolate, obtuse, imperceptively tridentate apically, laongly attenuate below intothe subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on a single, filiform, .6 to 1" " [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Anathallis aristulata (Lindl.) Luer 2007; Specklinia aristulata (Lindl.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia aristulata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Anathallis aristulata; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis aristulata drawing/good

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