Pleurothallis cabiriae [Pupulin, G.A.Rojas & J.D.Zuņiga] in ed. SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by G Rojas
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Common Name The Fringed Pleurothallis [refers to the petals and lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica in wet tropical to wet premontane forests at elevations around 600 meters as a mini-miiature sized, warm growing epiphyte with shorter than the leaf, triangular in section, grooved, dilated towards the apex, distinctly keeled abaxially ramicauls enveloped basally by 3 to 4, infundibuliform, tubular membraneous sheaths and carrying an elliptic, acute, minutely emarginate, provided with a small abaxial apicule leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, arising through a membraneous becoming papyraceous spathe, prostrate, .13" [3.5 mm] long, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with membraneous, tubular-cylindric, amplectant, obtuse floral bract and carrying always cleistogamous flowers.
Synonyms *Acianthera cabiriae Pupulin, G.A.Rojas & J.D.Zuņiga 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankestriana 11(3): 185-205 Bogarin 2011 Photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera thysana photo fide;
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