Pleurothallis greenwoodii [Soto Arenas] in ed. SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Solano and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Greenwood's Pleurothallis [American Botanist in Mexico 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico in pine-oak forests at elevations of 1900 to 2000 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, longitudinally channeled and winged towards the apex ramicauls with 2 internodes and carrying a single, oblong-elliptic, basally and apically rounded, very fleshy, slightly conduplicate and carinate, glaucous, green, axially sulcate and rugose on the top and smooth beneath leaf that blooms in the fall in nature and often in the mid winter and spring in cultivation on an annually successive, short, on the top of the leaf, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with funnel-shaped, truncate, mucronate, membraneous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"This species differs from P chrysantha by its slightly larger flowers, with the sepals papillose, almost warty, but not pubescent (e.g. with neat trichomes); the dorsal sepal is clearly spathulate, and the column wings are more definitively oblong . The stems are nor as winged as in its allies. Furthermore, P chrysantha is a much fleshier plant, and can have more oblong leaves. As far as known, these taxa are never found growing together." Hagaster etal 2002

Synonyms *Acianthera greenwoodii Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 506 Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003 as Acianthera greenwoodii Drawing fide;

Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2012 as Acianthera greenwoodii photo fide;

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