Pleurothallis capillaris Lindl. 1835 SUBGEN Arthrosia Luer 1986
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by © Helmut Seehawer
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Common Name The Hair-Like Pleurothallis
Flower Size small
Found in the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations of 800 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with approximate, erect, slender, angular triquetrous ramicauls with a single sheath in the middle and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly oblong to oblong-elliptic, acute, sessile and basally attenuate leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on a fascile subtended by a small compressed spathe, of 2 to 3, filiform, to 2" [5 cm] long, distichously, laxly, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acianthera capillaris (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Acianthera floribunda (Lindl.) F.Barros 2002; Acianthera longicaulis (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Acianthera sieberi (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Arthrosia capillaris (Lindl.) Campacci 2008; Arthrosia floribunda (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Arthrosia longicaulis (Lindl.) Campacci 2008; Humboldtia capillaris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia longicaulis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia longicaulis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis floribunda (Lindl.) Lindl. 1842; Pleurothallis longicaulis Lindl. 1842; Pleurothallis sieberi Luer 1986; Pleurothallis triquetra Schltr. 1913; Specklinia capillaris (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Specklinia floribunda Lindl. 1830; Specklinia longicaulis (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Specklinia ophioglossoides Mutel 1837
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 9 Barb Rodr 1830 as Specklinia floribunda;
* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 21: t. 1797 Lindley 1835
Mém. Soc. Roy. Centr. Agric. Dépt. N. 1835-1836: 84 Mutel 1837, nom. superfl. as Specklinia ophioglossoides;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 73. (Lindl.) Lindl. 1842 nom. illeg. as Pleurothallis floribunda;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28(Misc.): 72 Lindley 1842 as P longicaulis; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia capillaris; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia longicaulis; Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:422 Martius, Cogniaux 1893; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 488 Schlechter 1913 nom illegal P triquetra; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as P floribunda; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing not; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P longicaulis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P sieberi; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as P sieberi; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:242 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera capillaris; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:244 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Acianthera longicaulis Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:246 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Acianthera sieberi; Bradea 8: 294 F Barros 2002 as Acianthera floribunda; 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 capillaris; 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 longicaulis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Arthrosia floribunda; CAOB 69-70: 26 Campacci 2008 as Arthrosia capillaris; CAOB 69-70: 27 Campacci 2008 as Arthrosia longicaulis; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 as P longicaulis drawing ok; Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera floribunda; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera floribunda photo fide
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