Pleurothallis gehrtii Hoehne & Schltr. 1926 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photos by © Roberto Martins and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Pabst
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Common Name Gehrt's Pleurothallis [Brazilian Orchid Collector late 1800's early 1900's]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana and Santa Catarina states of Brazil at elevations around 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, conduplicate, narrowly lanceolate, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late spring through mid fall on fractiflex, 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, successively 1 to 2, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Anathallis gehrtii (Hoehne & Schltr.) F.Barros 2004; Lankesteriana gehrtii (Hoehne & Schltr.) Karremans & Luer 2015; Panmorphia gehrtii (Hoehne & Schltr.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis illudens Spann. 1938 publ. 1940; Specklinia gehrtii (Hoehne & Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 214 Hoehne & Schlechter 1926;
Anais Reunião Sul-Amer. Bot. 3: 171 Spann. 1938 publ. 1939 as P illudens;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;
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 gehrtii;
Orchid Memories: 10 F Barros 2004 as Anathallis gehrtii;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia gehrtii;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis gehrti drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana gehrtii;
NEW SPECIES AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES IN THEPLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Luer & Toscano 2015 as a synonym of Lankesteriana caudatipetala;
NEW SPECIES AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES IN THEPLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Luer & Toscano 2015 as P illudens;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana gehrtii photo fide
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