Pleurothallis rinkei [Luer] comb novo Pfahl 2012 SUBGENUS Acianthera
Photo by © Byron Rinke
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Rinke's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Ecuador without locational data as a warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with sharply winged, laterally compressed, sulcate, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath above the base and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, the basal margins decurrent to 1.2" [3 cm] onto the ramicaul and blooms in the fall and winter on a single, arising through a basal spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, on top of the leaf, to .8" [2 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with as long as the ovary floral bracts.
"Most similar to P aechme but distinguished by the thin leaves that are decurrent onto a sharply winged ramicaul and a short, simultaneously flowered raceme is borne on the top of the leaf. The sepals are thickly fleshy and pubescent externally. The synsepal is concave with incurved, not recurved margins. The lip is thick and elliptical with verrucose calli on the disc and with erect, obtuse, marginal lobes below the middle." Luer 2006
Synonyms *Acianthera rinkei Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Acianthera rinkei;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Acianthera rinkei drawing fide ;
* The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia Nomenclature notes #4 Pfahl 2013;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera rinkei photo fide
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