Pleurothallis dasilvae [Chiron & Xim.Bols.] comb novo Pfahl 2013 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo/TYPE drawing of Pabstiella dasilvae by © Chiron & Xim.Bols and © The Epidendra Website
Common Name da Silva's Pleurothallis [Brazilian discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Bahia state of Brazil at elevations below 100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with suberect, very short, cylindrical ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, thick fleshy, elliptical, rounded and minutely tridenticulate apically, lightly purple speckled beneath, cuneate below into the pseudo-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, fractiflex, .8 to 2" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, loose, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with a glabrous floral bract.
"Characterized by the shape of the inflorescence and the hairiness of the inner faces of the sepals. It is s part of the P hians group, especially close to P fusca, P fasciata, P pellifeloidis and P brachystele but differs from them all by the very size of the plants, the petals about 4 times shorter than the dorsal sepal, by the very differently shaped, pubescent, irregular margined lip that is 1 and a half times longer than the petals and the very large winged column." Chiron and Xim.Bols 2011
Synonyms *Pabstiella dasilvae Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Richardiana XI(3):141-144. Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2011 drawing as Pabstiella dasilvae drawing fide;
