Pleurothallis crebrifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photos by © Luis Filipe Varella
Drawing by von Martius, Eichler, Urban
Common Name or Meaning The Exuberent Leafed Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Espirito Santo and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindric ramicauls carrying a single, fleshy, oblong-elliptic, acute, imperceptively tridentate, shortly attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms on a shorter than the leaf, arising through a miniscule spathe, peduncle to .2" [5 mm] long, simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence
Many authors include P crebrifolia, P montipelladensis and P ourobranquensis as Synonyms of P aristulata, I have left them separate for now.
Synonyms Anathallis crebrifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2007; Lepanthes crebrifolia Barb.Rodr.1881; Specklinia crebrifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:482 Martius, Cogniaux 1896
* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 98 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
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 crebrifolia;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Anathallis crebifolia;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis crebifolia drawing/photo fide;
NEW SPECIES AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Luer & Toscano 2015 as a synonym of Anathallis aristula;
Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019 as synonym of Anathallis aristulata
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