Pleurothallis matinhensis Hoehne 1938 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986
Photo by Luiz Felipe Varela and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium
Photos by Luiz Filipe Varella
Drawing by Helmut Seehawer
Common Name The Mantinha Pleurothallis [a city in Pernambuco State Brazil]
Flower Size 1/8" [.4 cm]
Found in southern Brazil on old trees mid way to high on trunk at elevations of 700 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 trumpet shaped sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, round to ovate, fleshy keeled leaf that blooms in the spring on a 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, successively 3, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Pabstiella matinhensis (Hoehne) Luer 2007; Specklinia matinhensis (Hoehne) Luer 2004; Trichosalpinx matinhensis (Hoehne) Luer 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 1(1): 13 Hoehne 1938
Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide to the first photo;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide to the first photo;
Phytologia 54: 396 Luer 1983 as Trichosalpinx marinhensis;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rain Forest in SE Brazil Miller & Warren 1994 as P mattinhensis;
100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo ok;
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 matinhensis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador SYstematics of Apoda-Proreepntia Luer 2007 as Pabstiella matininhensis;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 fide to the first photo
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