Pleurothallis cryptophyta [Barb Rodr.] in ed SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by Diego Bogarin
Drawing by Cogniaux
Common Name The Hidden Pleurothallis [refers to the diminutive size of the plant]
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia and Rio de Janiero and Minas Gerais states of Brazil in wet premontane forests at elevations below 600 meters as a mini miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ascending, slightly flexuous, light green ramicauls carryig a single, apical, erect to patent, dryly rigid, intense green, convex and purplish below, median nerve profoundy canaliculate above, less so beneath leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect to more or less patent, somewhat flexuous, terete, pale, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, with somewhat membraneous, ocreate, narrow, acute, glabrous, , shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Often confused with P parvifolia which is endemic to Brazil and closely related to P quadridentata.
Synonyms Andreettaea cryptophyta (Barb.Rodr.) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1): 3 (2022; Lepanthes cryptophyta Barb.Rodr. 1881; Muscarella cryptophyta (Barb.Rodr.) Bogarín & Karremans 2020
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 65 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Lepanthes cryptophyta;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:486 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as P parviflora;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 116 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as P parvifolia drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella cryptophyta photo fide; Andreettaea cryptophyta (Barb.Rodr.) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1): 3 Doucette 2022
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