Pleurothallis deuteroklingelfusii [Luer, Toscano & Baptista] ined SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986
Photos by © Luiz Felipe Varella and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing of Anathallis klingelfusii
TYPE Drawing of Anathallis klingelfusii by © Luer & Toscano
Common Name The Second Klingelfus' Masdevallia [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast and cultivator of the species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Santa Catarina state of Brazil at elevations of 300 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, loose, simultaneously to 12 flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"This species of Pleurothallis is distinguished by yellow, long-attenuate sepals, and apiculate petals with dark purple filling the middle two thirds. The dark purple, simple, oblong lip is unique with a pair of long-ciliate-villous crests below the middle." Luer & Toscano 2012
Synonyms *Anathallis klingelfusii Luer & Toscano 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Pap. Bot. 17: 309 Luer, Toscano & Baptista 2012 drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis klingelfusii photo fide
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