Pleurothallis bicornuta (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
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Drawing by © Cogniaux
Common Name or Meaning The Two Horned Pleurothallis
Flower Size .08" [2mm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with an erect-ascending, slightly arcuate ramicaul carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptical, rigid, subplanate, apically bidentate leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect-arcuate, short, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acianthera bicornuta (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Lepanthes bicornuta Barb.Rodr.1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 61 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Lepanthes bicornuta;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:470 Martius, Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab97 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:242 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Acianthera bicornuta
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