Pleurothallis acrogenia [Luer & Toscano] in ed. SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Mentosae Luer 1986
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TYPE Drawing of Pabstiella acrogenia by Carl Luer
EARLY
Common Name The Prominent Chin Pleurothallis [refers to the mentum]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bahia and Espírito Santo states of Brazil at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with short, erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, light green, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute to subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiuolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, from a node low on the ramicaul, subflexuous, peduncle 1 to 1.8" [2.5 to 4.5 cm] long, arising from a node low on the ramicaul, 2.6" [6.5 cm] long overall, distichous, loosely to densely, successively several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel flower bracts.
"Pabstiella acrogenia is characterized by narrowly elliptical leaves surpassed by a twice longer, erect peduncle with a flexuous, successively flowered raceme. The lateral sepals are connate into a broad, obtuse lamina that forms a conspicuous mentum with an elongated column-foot similar to that of P. conspersa (Hoehne) Luer. However, the petals are only minutely ciliate, not coarsely verrucose, and the lip is more shortly clawed with the apex smooth or only rugose, not coarsely verrucose." Luer & Toscano
Synonyms *Pabstiella acrogenia Luer & Toscano 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 369. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Pabstiella acrogenia drawing fide;
Richardiana 16: 196 Chiron & Tesch 2016 as Pabstiella acrogenia
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