Pleurothallis amandae [Campacci & Silva] in ed. SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Plant and Flower TYPE Drawing Photos by Marcos Campacci Common Name Amanda's Pleurothallis [Daughter of the discoverer of the species current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in riparian forests at elevations around 850 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, repent epiphyte with a creeping, cylindrical rhizome giving rise to rigid, terete ramicauls enveloped in the lower 1/3 by ochre colored, deciduous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, retuse, gradually narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, [1.2 cm] long, racemose, shorter than the leaf, peduncle green, .08" [2 mm] long, arising through a short, acute spathe, simultaneously 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with off-white, triangular, short, acute floral bracts.
Similar to P dutrae but it has a larger lip with a dark violet color, smooth margins, smaller lateral lobes extending less apically, central lobe obovate and broad, the larger petals spathulate and the lateral sepals narrrower.
Synonyms *Acianthera amandae Campacci & Silva 2020
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras Novas Especies Vol 16 Campacci & Silva 2020 as Acianthera amandae fide
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