Pleurothallis eugenii Pabst 1956 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by Helmut Seehauer
Common Name Eugene's Pleurothallis [Eugene Warming Danish Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .4" long [1 cm] long
Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil in humid primary forests at elevations of 1100 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with ercect ramicauls enveloped by 3 loose, brown to cinnamon colored sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, erect, faintly conduplicate, slightly infolded and twisted at the base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, peduncle to 4" [10 cm] long, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long overall, simultaneously 9 to 12 flowered inflorescence.
Often stated to be a synonym of P linearifolia and may well be, I have left it separate because the Brazilians feel it is different.
Synonyms Anathallis eugenii (Pabst) Baumbach & Rysy 2013; Specklinia eugenii (Pabst) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Rodriguésia 18-19: 29 Pabst 1956;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999as Syn of P linearifolia;
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 eugenei;
Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019 as a synonym of Anathallis linearifolia;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis eugenei photo fide
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