Pleurothallis cordilabia Pabst 1972 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista photo by © Maria Rita Cabral and Orchidstudium
Drawing by GFJ Pabst
Drawing by Helmut Seehawer
Common Name The Heart Shaped Lip Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in humid cloud forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, light green, narrowly lanceolate, conduplicate, attenuate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a arising through a spathe 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively single to 5 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Pabstiella cordilabia (Pabst) Luer 2007; Specklinia cordilabia (Pabst) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bradea 1: 267 Pabst 1972;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
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 cordilabia;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Pabstiella cordilabia;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide
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