Pleurothallis hygrophila Barb.Rodr. 1877 SUBGENUS Arthrosia Luer 1986

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Common Name The Water Loving Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in shady and humid areas of the southeastern Atlantic rainforest in Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, repent epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, fleshy, conduplicate, dark-olive green flecked with purple in hugh light leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect to slightly bent, 1.6" [4 cm] long, often simultaneously 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Acianthera barbacenensis (Barb. Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Acianthera hygrophila (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Arthrosia barbacenensis (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2006; Arthrosia hygrophila (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis barbacenensis Barb. Rodr. 1881; Pleurothallis barbacenensis var. angustifolia (Pabst) Pabst 1972; Pleurothallis hygrophila var. elongata Hauman 1917; Pleurothallis hygrophila var. longicaulis Dutra ex Pabst 1959; Pleurothallis platysemos var. angustifolia Pabst 1956; Specklinia barbacenensis (Barb. Rodr.) Luer 2004; Specklinia hygrophila (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros 1983 publ. 1984; Stelis hygrophila (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 7 Barb Rodr. 1877;

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 11 Barb Rodr. 1881 as P barbacensis;

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:426 Martius 1896 as P barbacensis

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab116 Martius 1896 drawing fide;

Anales Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 29: 375 Hauman 1917 as P hygrophila var elongata;

Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 14: 18 Pabst 1956 as P platysemos var angustifolia;

Sellowia 11: 130 Dutra ex Pabst 1959 as P hygrophila var longicaulis;

Bradea 1: 189 Pabst 1972 as P barbacensis var angustifolia;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P barbacensis drawing ok;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

Hoehnea 10: 110 F Barros 1983 publ. 1984 as Specklinia hygrophila;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P hygrophila;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:242 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera barbacensis;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:244 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase2001 as Acianthera hygrophila;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:263 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase2001 as Stelis hygrophila;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004as Specklinia hygrophila;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004as Specklinia barbacensis;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Arthrosia barbacensis;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Arthrosia hygrophila;

The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing ok;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera hygrophila photo fide

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