Pleurothallis neohamata ined SUBGENUS Acianthera

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Photos by © Daniel Jimenez

Deep shade WarmCoolSummerFall

Common Name or Meaning The New Hook Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica without locality as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a stout, erect, compressed, broadened towards the apex, triangular in section ramicaul enveloped basally by 3 slightly loose, sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to erect, coriaceous, fleshy, lanceolate, acute, tridenticulate, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a short to .26" [6.5 mm] long, uncinate, to 5 flowered inflorescence arising through a papyraceous, fugacious spathe and has an infundibuliform, acute floral bract.

Synonyms *Acianthera hamata Pupulin & G.A.Rojas 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 12(1): 156., f. 1. Pupulin & G.A.Rojas 2007 as Acianthera hamata drawing fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera hamata photo fide;

Lankesteriana 19(1). 31-55 2019 as Acianthera hamata photo fide;

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