Pleurothallis dantasii [Luer, Toscano & Baptista] in ed. SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

TYPE Drawing of Anathallis dantasii by © Luer & Toscano and The Epidendra Website

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Common Name Dantas' Pleurothallis [Brazilian Orchid collector and cultivator of species Current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, long-repent epiphtye with slender, ascending-erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a short, arising from a node below the abscission layer, peduncle .04" [1 mm] long, rachis to .32" [8 mm] long, a successively 6- to 7-flowered infloresence with shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bracts..

"This species is related to the sympatric, variable and frequent Pleurothallis paranaënsis Schltr., but differing in the repent habit with proportionally narrower and longer leaves, and a densely long-ciliated lip. Luer & Toscano 2011

Synonyms *Anathallis dantasii Luer, Toscano & Baptista 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 364. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Anathallis dantasii Drawing fide

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