Pleurothallis sansoniana [Chiron & Guiard] in ed SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Chiron & Guiard
Common Name Sanson's Pleurothallis [Brazilian Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil at elevations between 500 and 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, repent epiphyte with erect, cylindric ramicauls enveloped by 4, membraneous, infundibuliform, acute, imbricating sheaths and carrying an erect, fleshy, narrowly elliptical-ovate, rounded and shortly recurved, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms on up to 5, peduncle .28" [7 mm] long, rachis fractiflex, successively single, 7 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Anathallis sansoniana Chiron & Guiard 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Richardiana 13: 214 Chiron & Guiard 2013 Anathallis sansoniana drawing fide;
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