Pleurothallis armeniaca (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896 SUBGENUS Mirabilia Luer 1986
Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by Cogniaux
Common Name The Orange Pleurothallis [refers to the Flower Color]
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero and Parana states of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, ht growing, caespitose epiphyte with ascending ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, subplanate, , light green, very small, fleshy, ,tridentate apically, gradually narrowing below into the thin, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall on an erect to ascending, .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Lepanthes armeniaca Barb.Rodr. 1881; Pabstiella armeniaca (Barb.Rodr.) L.Kollmann 2010; Specklinia armeniaca (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros & V.T.Rodrigues 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 58 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Lepanthes armeniaca;
* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:470 Martius, Cogniaux 1893
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 97 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 drawing fide;
Bradea 14: 23 F Barros & V T Rodrigues 2009
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Candollea 65: 96 L Kollmann 2010 as Pabstiella armeniaca;
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