Pleurothallis auriculata Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Arthrosia Luer 1986
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Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
HOLOTYPE Drawing by J. Th. Descourtilz>
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Eared Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil and Bolivia at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a minature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, purple ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, purple, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrows below into the base leaf and blooms in the late spring through summer on a lateral, purple, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively several to 12 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with long lasting, color variable flowers
Synonyms Acianthera auriculata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Acianthera compressiflora (Barb.Rodr.) Chiron & Van den Berg 2012; Arthrosia auriculata (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Humboldtia auriculata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia auriculata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis anthoxantha Rchb. f. 1866; Pleurothallis compressiflora Barb. Rodr. 1881; Pleurothallis triquetra Klotzsch ex Lindl. 1859; Specklinia auriculata (Lindl.) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Companion Bot. Mag. 2(24): 356 Lindl. 1836;
H.R. von Fernsee Wawra, Bot. Ergebn.: 149 Rchb.f 1866 as P anthoxantha;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 13 Barb Rodr. 1881 as P compressiflora;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia auriculata;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:510 Martius, Cogniaux 1893;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab118 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 drawing fide;
Meded. Rijks-Herb. 29: 70 Schlechter 1916 as P triquetra;
Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as P longicaulis;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P anthoxantha drawing hmm;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
Hoehnea 10: 109 F Barros 1983 publ. 1984 as Specklinia auriculata;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing good;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P capillaris;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P longicaulis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P sieberi;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as P anthoxanthina drawingok/photo fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing ok/photo hmm;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:242 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera auricula;
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 auriculata;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A A Reconsideration of Madevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Arthrosia auriculata;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Richardiana 12: 73 Chiron & Van den Berg 2012 as P compressiflora;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera auriculata photo fide
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