Barbosella spiritu-sanctensis (Pabst) F.Barros & Toscano 1990SUBGENUS Barbosella

Photo by © Guy Chiron and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Drawing

Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Espirito Santo Barbosella [A state of eastern Brazil]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in humid forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, long-repent epiphyte with a slender, elongated, occasionally branching rhizome giving rise to an ascending ramicaul enveloped by a thin tubular sheath and carrying a single, prostrate, thickly coriaceous, suborbicular to elliptical, apex entire, obtuse to rounded, rounded and contracted below into the nearly absent petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, with a minute bract below the middle, erect, .6 to .75" [1.5 to 1.8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence and an oblique floral bract that envelops the pedicel.

"Characterized by the tiny habit, the minute creeping rhizome, the tiny round leaves a longer hair-like peduncle, membraneous epals and petals anda broadly trilobed lip, the concave base articulated with the slightly bulbous, free tip of the column-foot. The anther contains 4 equal sized pollina. Colsely allied to B crassifolia but differs in the shorter, broader lateral lobes of the lip and the presence of a pair of low, longitudinal, central calli." Luer 2000

Synonyms *Pleurothallis spiritu-sanctensis Pabst 1975

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Pleurothallis espiritosantensis drawing fide; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980 as Pleurothallis spiritusantensis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Espirito Santo Brazil Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide;

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