Pleurothallis dueteroklingelfusii [Luer & Toscano] in ed
Photos by © Luiz Felipe Varella and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
EARLY
Common Name The Second Klingelfus' Pleurothallis [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .4” [1 cm]
Found in Santa Catarina state of Brazil at elevations of 300 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on a from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .8 to 1.2” [2 to 3 cm] long, 5.2” [13 cm] long overall, loose, simultaneously to 12 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"This species of Pleurothallis is distinguished by yellow, long-attenuate sepals, and apiculate petals with dark purple filling the middle two thirds. The dark purple, simple, oblong lip is unique with a pair of long-ciliate-villous crests below the middle."
Synonyms *Anathallis klingelfusii Luer & Toscano 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 361. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Acianthera klingelfusii drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis klingelfusii photo fide
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