Pleurothallis cuneifolia Cogn. 1896 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000

photo by Sandro Lucas Xavier Tobias and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Drawing

Drawing by Hoehne and Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarioa Website

Common Name The Wedge Shaped Leaf Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil at elevations of 550 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, narrowly elliptical, wedge shaped, tridenticulate, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, to arching, longer than the leaf, fractiflex, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Lepanthes wawraeana Barb.Rodr. 1881; Pabstiella wawraeana (Barb.Rodr.) Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2010; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. alborubra Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. alboviridis Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. atrorubra Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. aurea Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. maculata Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. parviflora Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. punctata Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. purpurascens Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. vinosa Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. virescens Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis cuneifolia var. vittata Cogn. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 46 Barb Rodr 1881 as Lepanthes wawraeana;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:441 Martius 1896

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 92 Martius 1896

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var alborubra;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var alboviridis;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var atrorubra;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var maculata;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var punctata;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var purpurescens;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var vinosa;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var virescens;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var vittata;

* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:442 Martius 1896 as P cuneifolia var parviflora;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 212 (1926 as P cuneifolia var aurea;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 as P sparsifolia;

Richardiana 10: 72 Chiron & Xim Bols. 2010 as Pabstiella wawraeana drawing fide;

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