Pleurothallis velvetina [Luer & Toscano] in ed SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

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

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Common Name The Velvety Pleurothallis [refers to the sepals]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Bahia state of Brazil at elevations around 200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on 1 to 2, from near the apex of the ramicaul with a spathe, congested, peduncle .08 to .2" [2 to 5 mm] long, racmose, .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long, successively single, 8 to 9 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"This little species from south-central Bahia is characterized by broadly elliptical leaves longer than the ramicauls, and one or two shorter densely flowered racemes. The sepals are free, acute, and densely short-pubescent within. The single-veined, ovate petals are similarly pubescent. The lip is oblong, obtuse, ciliate above the middle, and bilobulate at the base with a small, cleft callus in the center. It is related to other small species of the section Anathallis with a ciliate lip that is bilobulate at the base from which it differs by the dense, short pubescence of the sepals and petals, and the minute, cleft callus of the lip." Luer & Toscano 2011

Synonyms *Anathallis velvetina Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 367. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Anathallis velvetina Drawing fide

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