Pleurothallis fenestrata Barb.Rodr. 1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista ©

Drawing

Drawing by © Cogniaux

Full shade Cool Fall

Common Name The Spotted Flower Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in southeastern and southern Brazil as a miniature sized, cool growing, repent epiphyte with erect ramicauls carrying a single, erect to erect-patent, apical, elliptical, acute and bidenticulate apically, profundly canaliculate base leaf that blooms in the fall on many, fasciculate, erect to subpendulous, .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Acianthera fenestrata (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Acianthera spicata (Dutra) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Cryptophoranthus fenestratus (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr. 1881; Cryptophoranthus fenestratus var. angustifolius Cogn. 1896; Cryptophoranthus spicatus Dutra 1933; Pleurothallis spicata (Dutra) Luer 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 80 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Crtyptophoranthus fenestratus;

* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 12 Barb Rodr. 1881)

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:322 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as Cryptophoranthus fenestratus

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab76 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as Cryptophoranthus fenestratus drawing fide;

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:322 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as Cryptophoranthus fenestratus var angustifolius;

Ostenia: 172 Dutra 1933 as Cryptophoranthus spicatus

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Cryptophoranthus fenestratus drawing ok;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Cryptophoranthus spicatus drawing ok;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Cryptophorantus fenestratus photo fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P spicata;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:243 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera fenestrata;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:243 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera spicata;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 43/3 2001;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera fenestrata photo fide

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