Pleurothallis capanemae Barb.Rodr. 1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859
Drawings By © Barbosa Rodriguez, Courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
MID
ERALY
Common Name or Meaning The Capana Pleurothallis [Guilherme Schuch - Baron of Capanema, Brazilian Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in low growing swampy forests on branches and trunks usually lower to the ground at elevations of 700 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with pendent ramicauls partly covered by evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, thick, flat, leathery, olive green turning wine red in high light, lanceolate leaf that blooms in the mid summer and earlier fall on a .8” [2 cm] long, simultaneously 5 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Acianthera capanemae (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 16 Barb Rodr. 1881
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:432 Martius, Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab113 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:242 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera capanemae;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide
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