Pleurothallis bidentata Lindl. 1835 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Orchid Website
Drawing by © Helmut Seehawer
LATER
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Two Toothed Pleurothallis [refers to the forked lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil on trunks in remnant gallery forests at elevations around 250 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing, repent epiphyte with erect, slender basally becoming thicker above ramicauls enveloped by 5 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate, conduplicate, leathery to stiff, light olive green leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a short, .08 to .16” [2 to 4 mm] long, successively 2 to 3, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acianthera bidentata (Lindl.) F.Barros & V.T.Rodrigues 2009; Humboltia bidentata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 21: t. 1797 Lindley 1835;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:460 Martius, Cogniaux 1893;
Orchidaceae Brasiliensis Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide; Bradea 14: 22 F.Barros & V.T.Rodrigues 2009 as Acianthera bidentata
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