Pleurothallis calcarata Cogn. 1906 publ. 1907 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000

Photo by © W H Collier and A Toscano de Brito and New Species and Nomenclatural Notes in Pabstiella(Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) from Brazil Lankesteriana 16(2):153-185 Toscano & Luer 2016

Drawing

Drawing by Hemut Seehawer

MID MID

Common Name The Spured Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Brazil in humid primary cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 sheaths with the lowest being short and the apical being loose and carrying a single, apical, erect, light green, linear, conduplicate, attenuate below into the pseudopetiolate base leaf that blooms in the mid spring through mid fall on a 1.6 to 2.4" long, successivley 3 to 4, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pabstiella calcarata (Cogn.) Luer 2007; Specklinia calcarata (Cogn.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 311 Cogniaux 1906 publ. 1907;

Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 51 Loefgren 1918 as P magnicalcarata;

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 50 Kraenzl. 1911 as P mentigera;

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 calcarata;

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

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

Candollea 65: 96 Kollmann 2010 as Pabstiella mentigera;

Rodriguésia 61: 130 F Barros & Barberena 2010 as Specklinia mentigera;

New Species and Nomenclatural Notes in Pabstiella(Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) from Brazil Lankesteriana 16(2):153-185 Toscano & Luer 2016 Drawing/photo fide;

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

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