Pleurothallis versicolor Porsch 1905
Photos by © Giovane proença and his Facebook Page
TYPE Drawing by © Porsch and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name The Colorful Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Sao Paulo Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with thin, terete ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, small, fleshy, elliptic-oblong, single nerved, purple-spotted beneath, acute apically atteneuate below ito the base leaf that blooms in the winter on an as long as the leaf, to just shorter than fliliform , fractiflex, single, rarely 2 flowered inflorescence.
Kew includes Pleurothallis podoglossa Hoehne 1938 as a synonym of this species, I have left them separate for now.
Synonyms Pabstiella versicolor (Porsch) Luer 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 155 Porsch 1905;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Pabstiella versicolor
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