Barbosella gardneri (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Barbosella
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Luiz Filipe Varela and his Flicker website
Drawings by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Gardner's Barbosella [English Botanist and Collector in Brazil early 1900's]
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Sao Paulo, Espirito Santo and Rio de Janiero States of Brazil in very wet, shady forests around swamps, streams and rivers at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing long-repent epiphyte with an erect ramicaul carrying a single, apical, ovate, acute leaf that blooms in the later summer on an erect, stiff, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with thin, oblique, enveloping the pedicel floral bract.
The flowers are characterized by the panduriform lip dilated by a broadly rounded larteral lobe from above the middle. Theobtuse apex is abruptly acuminate into a pointed tip. The minute base is articulate with the tip of the column foot." Luer 2000
Synonyms Barbosella gardneri var. genuina Hoehne 1947; Barbosella microphylla (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1918; Humboldtia gardneri (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 ; *Pleurothallis gardneri Lindl. 1842; Restrepia gardneri (Lindl.) Benth. 1883; Restrepia microphylla Barb.Rodr. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst - Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as B microchila drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as B microphylla drawing/photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42-43 pg 2624 - 2756 Brieger 2001; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2005; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Espiritu Santo Brazil Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide;
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