Pleurothallis bocainensis Porto & Brade 1938 publ. 1940 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by © Helmut Seeehauer
Common Name The Bocaina Pleurothallis [A town In Sao Paulo State Brazil]
Flower Size .2” [5 mm]
Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil in humid virgin rain forests on tree trunks and branches as well as rock faces at elevations of 1300 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte or lithophyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 3 dark brown sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, flat, lanceolate, faintly conduplicate, yellow green, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a 4.8” [12 cm] long, fractiflex, simultaneously to 9 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Anathallis bocainensis (Porto & Brade) F.Barros & Barberena 2010;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Anais Reunião Sul-Amer. Bot. 3: 37 Porto & Brade1938 publ. 1939;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 as Syn of P attenuata;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Rodriguésia 61(1): 127-131. Nomenclatural notes and new combinations of Anathallis and Specklinia (Orchidaceae) Fábio de Barros & Felipe Fajardo and V.A. Barberena 2010 as Anathallis bocainensis
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