Pleurothallis cristata (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Chiron and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by Barbosa Rodrigues and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Callus Pleurothallis [refers to the callus on the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in montane forests on trees as a miniature sized shortly repent epiphyte with an erect, as long as the leaf, strict to slightly arcuate ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect-arching, subflat towards the apex, conduplicate towards the concave base, oblong-ellitpical, obtuse, single nerved, deep green, median nerve slightly grooved above, slightly protruding below, tridenticulate apically, sessile base leafthat blooms on a within the cavity, erect to slightly flexuous, single, thin, glabrous, much shorter than the leaf, .8" [2 cm] long, successively single to 6 flowered inflorescence with tubular, glabrous, obliquely truncate apically, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Synonyms Acianthera cristata (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004; *Lepanthes cristata Barb.Rodr. 1881;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 57 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Lepanthes cristata
* Flora Brasilensis 3(4): 530 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): tab 104 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896drawing 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 Acianthera cristata
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