Pleurothallis langeana Kraenzl. 1911 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name Lange's Pleurothallis [German Orchid Collector in Brazil late 1800's - early 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Parana state of Brazil at elevations around 700 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing, repent epiphyte with short ramicauls carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, oblong to more or less rhombic-obovate, minutely tridenticulate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a short, single flowered inflorescence.
Kraenzlin compares this orchid with Pleurothallis crinita and Pleurothallis tribuloides.
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution. Most likely the photo above is not correct as it has multiflowered inflorescence and the type is single flowered.
Synonyms Acianthera langeana (Kraenzl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Cryptophoranthus dusenii Schltr. 1922; Cryptophoranthus langeanus (Kraenzl.) Garay 1953
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 49 Kraenzl. 1911;
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 8: 118 Schlechter 1922 as Cryptophoranthus dusenii;
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 12: 169 Garay 1953 as Cryptophoranthus langeanus;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Cryptophoranthus langeana drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:244 Pridgeon and Chase 2001 as Acianthera langeana
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