Pleurothallis bradei Schltr. 1922 SUBGENUS Madisonia

Photo by © Marcelo Rodrigues and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Flower detail of lip and column

Photo by W. H. Collier, A.L.V Toscano de Brito & N. Gutiérrez-Morales and FILOGENIA MOLECULAR E BIOGEOGRAFIA DE Pabstiella BRIEGER & SENGHAS (ORCHIDACEAE NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ MORALES 2019

Drawing

Drawing by Helmut Seehawer

Full shade Warm Summer EARLYFall

Common Name or Meaning Brade's Pleurothallis [German Botanist in Brazil late 1800 - early 1900's]

Flower Size .12” [3 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo and Sao Paulo states of Brazil in wet primary, but open forests at elevations of 800 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramcauls enveloped by 3 trumpet-shaped, close, recurved, hairy margined, purple lined sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, broadly lanceolate, dark olive green, stiff, indistinctly conduplicate, attenuate below into the pseudo-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and early fall on a 1.4” [3.5 cm] long, elongating, fractiflex, first flower at leaf height, successively single to occasionally 2, alternately 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pabstiella bradei (Schltr.) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis ramphastorhyncha var. caespitosa Porsch 1908; Trichosalpinx bradei (Schltr.) Luer 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secç. Bot. 1(4): 41 Schlechter 1922;

Orchidaceae Brasiliensis Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV 1997;

Phytologia 54: 394 Luer 1983 as Trichosalpinx bradei;

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 2004 as Specklinia bradei;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Pabstiella bradei;

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

FILOGENIA MOLECULAR E BIOGEOGRAFIA DE Pabstiella BRIEGER & SENGHAS (ORCHIDACEAE NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ MORALES 2019 photo fide as Pabstiella bradei photo fide;

Phytotaxa 505: 81 Toscano & E C Schmidt 2021 as Madisonia bradei

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