!Nothostele acianthiformis (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982 Photo "C" by Joao Batista Photos D
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Garay Harvard Bot Mus. Leafl. 28 1982 Common Name The
Point Shaped Nothostele
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in central Brazil as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, thin, glabrous below, sparsely short, puberulous-glandulous above, enveloped by 5 to 7 erect, dark reddish bracts, somewhat sinuous, pale green below, dark reddish above stems carrying non referenced leaves that blooms on a short rachis .8 to 2.4" [2 to 6 cm] long, 3 to 9 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, pelucid, acuminate, 3 nerved floral bracts and carrying relatively small, ereect to erect patent flowers.
Synonyms Centrogenium acianthiforme (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Hoehne 1945; *Pelexia acianthiformis Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881; Stenorrhynchos acianthiformis (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Cogn. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Brasílica 8(12; 2): 289 Hoehne 1945 as Centrogenium acianthiformis; Fl. Brasílica Tab 158 Illustracao Hoehne 1945 as Centrogenium acianthiformis drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Stennorhynchus acianthiformis drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as Stennorhynchus acianthiformis drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Phylogenetic placement, taxonomic revision and a new species of Nothostele (Orchidaceae), an enigmatic genus Joao Batista, Thiago E C Meneguzzo, Salazar and Bianchetti Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 165: 356 2011 Drawing/photo fide
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