Pleurothallis ephemera Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by Hoehne
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Common Name The Fleeting Pleurothallis [refers to the short life of the flowers]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in French Guinea, Surinam, Brazil and Bolivia in foothills as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 tubular, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, fractiflex successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Effusiella ephemera (Lindl.) Campacci 2011; Effusiella ochracea (Porsch) Baptista Baptista 2011; Humboldtia ephemera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia longirostris (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia rostriflora (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pabstiella ephemera (Lindl.) Luer 2007; Pabstiella ochracea (Porsch) Luer & Toscano 2011; Pabstiella rostriflora (Rchb.f.) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis longirostris H.Focke 1843; Pleurothallis ochracea Porsch 1905; Pleurothallis ornithorrhyncha Hoehne 1929; Pleurothallis rostriflora Rchb.f. 1850; Specklinia ephemera (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Stelis ephemera (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Stelis rostriflora (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 356 Lindley 1837;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 1: 340 Focke 1843 as P longirostris;
Linnaea 22: 827 Rchb.f 1850 as P rostriflora;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia ephemera;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia longirostris;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia rostriflora;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:455 Martius 1896;
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 156 Porsch 1905 as P ochracea;
Arch. Inst. Biol. Defesa Agric. 2: 34 Hoehne 1929 as P ornithorhyncha;
Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Pleurothallis ochrcea drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P ochracea drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Vazquez and Ibisch 2000;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 as P rostriflora;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Vazquez and Ibisch 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:262 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis ephemera;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:266 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis rostriflora;
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 ephemera;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2007 as Pabstiella ephemera;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of SpeckliniaLuer 2007 as Pabstiella rostriflora;
Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 374. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Pabstiella ochracea;
Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 9: 337 Campacci 2011 as Effusiella ephmera;
Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 9: 338 Baptista 2011 as Effusiella ochracea;
FILOGENIA MOLECULAR E BIOGEOGRAFIA DE Pabstiella BRIEGER & SENGHAS (ORCHIDACEAE NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ MORALES 2019 photo fide as Pabstiella ephemera photo fide;
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