Pleurothallis capillaris Lindl. 1835 SUBGEN Arthrosia Luer 1986

Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Drawing

Drawing by © Helmut Seehawer

Full shade WarmCool LATEWinter Spring

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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