Pleurothallis crinita Barb. Rodr. 1877 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by White Oak Orchids
Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto
TYPE Drawings by Barbosa Rodrigues
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Common Name The Long Haired Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state in the southeast Atlantic forests of Brazil and Bolivia at elevations of 700 to 900 [1800 to 2000 in Bolivia] meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, repent epiphyte in humid and shady locations with spreading ramicauls enveloped completely by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, obovate, conduplicate, yellowish-olive green, speckled purple on both sides, attenuate abruptly below into the twisted, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a .6 to .7" [1.5 to 1.7 cm] long, successively 2, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Acianthera crinita (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Acianthera renipetala (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004; Cryptophoranthus kautskyi Pabst 1976; Lepanthes crinita (Barb. Rodr.) Barb. Rodr. 1881; Lepanthes renipetala Barb. Rodr. 1881; Pabstiella crinita (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis renipetala (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1896; Specklinia crinita (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 66 Barb Rodr 1881 as Lepanthes crinita;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 16 Barb Rodr. 1877;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 66 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Lepanthes renipetala;
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): 503 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): tab 100 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): 504 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 as P renipetala
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): tab 100 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 as P renipetala drawing fide;
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): tab 100 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 as P renipetala var grandifiolia;
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): tab 100 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 as P renipetala var intermedia;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Bradea 2(22): 2 Pabst 1976 as Cryptophorathus kautskyi;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as Cryptophoranthus kautskyi drawing fide;
Hoehnea 10: 109 F Barros 1983 publ. 1984 as Specklinia crinita;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 photo/drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:243 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera crinita;
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 crinita;
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 Acianthera renipetala;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Pabstiella crinita;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Acianthera crinita photos fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera crinita photo fide
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