~Pleurothallis longiglossa [Chiron & N.Sanson] in ed - See Pleurothallis paranaensis Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

TYPE Drawing by © Chiron & N. Sanson and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Long Tongue Pleurothallis [refers to the long lip]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 papery sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, narrowing below into a pseudopetiolate base leaf that can bloom at most any time of the year on a fascile of erect, short, successively single, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Anathallis longiglossa Chiron & N.Sanson 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Richardiana 10(3): 153-156. Chiron & N. Sanson 2010 as Anathallis longiglossaDrawing fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis longiglossa drawing/photo fide; Harvard Papers in Botany , Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 39–68 2015,© NEW SPECIES AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES IN THEPLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Luer & Toscano 2015 as a synonym of Anathallis paranaensis; Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019 as a synonym of Anathallis microphyta

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