Pleurothallis bofiae [Chiron & Tesch.] in ed. SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photos by © Luis Felipe Varella and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Chiron
Common Name Bof's Pleurothallis {Madam Bof Brazilian A good friend of the collector current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil at elevations around 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with a very short, cylindrical, ramicaul carrying a single, aical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, rounded and slightly retuse apically, canaliculate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, longer than the leaf, arising through a spathe, peduncle, cylindrical, 1.2" [3 cm] long, rachis, .4" 1 cm] long, successsively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence wth much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Similar to P miniatolineolata and P conspersa but differs from the first orchid in the twice larger plant, shorter ramicauls, shorter peduncle, flowers twice as large, shorter petals and a different echinate apex of the lip. From P conspersa it differs in the shorer ramicauls, half as wide leaves, twice larger flowers, glabrous sepals and petals and the different bicarinate, echinate apex of the lip. Chiron & Tesch 2016
Synonyms *Pabstiella bofiae Chiron & Tesch 2016
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Richardiana 16: 196 Chiron & Tesch 2016 as Pabstiella bofiae
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