Pleurothallis brevipes H.Focke 1849 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

Plant and Flowers

Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website

Another Flower

Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Drawing of Panmorphia brevipes

Drawing by Carl Luer

Photo of what was P modesta

Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista

Drawing of what was P modesta

Drawing by Hiehne

Drawing of what was P [Anathallis] modesta

Drawing by Helena Ignowski and Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019

Drawing of what was P fastigiata

Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Short Column Foot Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Surinam, Meta department of Colombia, Pataza, Morona-Santiago and Tungurahua provinces of Ecuador, Amazonas department of Peru, La Paz and Santa Cruz departments of Bolivia, Rio de Janiero stae of Brazil in rain forests at elevations of 100 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with ascending to horizontal, slender ramicauls carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptical, obtuse to rounded, light green with purple spotting, cuneate below to the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an suberect, arising on the back of the leaf, 1.4" [3.5 cm], to 15 successively flowered, racmose inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"Recognized by its slender secondary stems which approach the leaves in length, acute elliptical leaves which may be suffused or flecked with purple, a short raceme producing successively yel-low-orange flowers with red aristate petals, and an oblong lip without lateral lobes but with minute basal lobules. Plants remain in flower nearly continuously. Similar to P pachyphyta but it has short, thick secondary stem and minute lateral lobes of the lip." Luer 1976

Synonyms Anathallis brevipes (H.Focke) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Anathallis fastigiata (Luer & Toscano) Luer 2009; Anathallis modesta (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia brevipes (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes modesta Barb.Rodr. 1881; Panmorphia brevipes (H.Focke) Luer 2006; Panmorphia fastigiata (Luer & Toscano) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis fastigiata Luer & Toscano 2002; Pleurothallis modesta (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896; Specklinia bradei (H.Focke) Luer 2004; Specklinia fastigiata (Luer & Toscano) Luer 2004; Specklinia modesta (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Tijdschr. Natuurk. Wetensch. Kunsten 2: 198 Focke 1849;

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 62 Barb Rodr 1881 as P modesta;

Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia brevipes;

Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 273 Schlechter 1918 as P microblephara;

Flora Brasilensis Orchidaceae 1 Martius/Cogniaux Vol 3 Part 4:440 1896;

Flora Brasilensis Orchidaceae 1 Martius/Cogniaux Vol 3 Part 4:449 1896 as P modesta;

Flora Brasilensis Orchidaceae 1 Martius/Cogniaux Vol 3 Part 4:tab 94 1896 as P modesta drawing fide;

Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as P modesta drawing not;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P modesta drawing hmm;

Selbyana 3: 66 Luer 1976 drawing fide;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P modesta;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Orchids of Bolivia Ibisch & Vasquez 2000 photo hmm;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:247 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis brevipes;

Selbyana 23[2] Toscano & Luer 2002 as Pleurothallis fastigiata drawing fide;

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia brevipes;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia fastigiata;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia modesta;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia brevipes

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia brevipes drawing good;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia fastigiata;

The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 as P modesta drawing ok;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis fastigata;

Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis brevipes drawing good/photo ok;

Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae:

Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019 as Anathallis modesta photo/drawing fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis brevipes photo fide

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