Pleurothallis gossameri [Luer & Toscano] in ed

TYPE Drawing of Pabstiella gossameri by Carl Luer

EARLY

Common Name The Gossamer Pleurothallis [an allusion to the tiny plant]

Flower Size .12” [3 mm]

Found in Bahia state of Brazil without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1.12 to 1.2" [2.8 to 3 cm] long, long-pedicellate, a single possibly 2 flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.

"This minute species from the Atlantic forest is characterized by a single flower in the only specimen seen, but a vestigial bud suggests that a second flower could develop. The flower is held high above the acute, elliptical leaf by a filamentose peduncle, and the long, drooping pedicel is equally filamentose. The synsepal is minutely biapiculate, the spathulate petals are narrowly unguiculate, and the lip is minutely verrucose and bicarinate." Luer & Toscano 2011

Synonyms *Pabstiella gossameri Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 373. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Pabstiella gossameri drawing fide;

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