Pleurothallis carinifera (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.1896 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by © Alfredus Cogniaux
Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name The Keeled Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4” [1 cm]
Found in Rio De Janeiro and Parana' states of Brazil in primary cloud forests, swamp forests and along river banks on moss covered trees at elevations of 1100 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 trumpet shaped sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, minute, coriaceous, light green, obovate, obtuse and minutely tridenticulate apically, attenuate below into the short pseudopetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a thinly capillary, glabrous, zig-zag, longer than the leaf, 2 to 2.4” [5 to 6 cm] long, simultaneously 1 to 5, 7 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Lepanthes carinifera Barb.Rodr. 1881; Pabstiella carinifera (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2007; Specklinia carinifera (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004; Trichosalpinx carinifera (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Rev. Engenh. 3: 110 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Lepanthes carinifera;
Flora Brasiiensis Orchidaceae Fl. Bras. 3(4): 584 Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasiiensis Orchidaceae Fl. Bras. 3(4): Tab 113 Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Phytologia 54: 394 Luer 1983 as Trichosalpinx carinifera;
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 carinifera;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Pabstiella carinifera;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
FILOGENIA MOLECULAR E BIOGEOGRAFIA DE Pabstiella BRIEGER & SENGHAS (ORCHIDACEAE NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ MORALES 2019 photo fide as Pabstiella carinifera photo fide;
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