Pleurothallis gracilicaulis Seehawer 2005 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Drawing by H Seehawer and Notes sur un groupe brésilien de Pabstiella (Pleurothallidinae, Orchidaceae) Chiron & Ximenes Bolsanello Richardiana X[2] Mars 2010
Common Name The Thin Stemmed Pleurothallis [refers to the ramicauls and the inflorescence]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with thin, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, narrowing below into the pseudopetiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to occasionall 2, erect to arching, a little longer than the leaf, 3.2" [8 cm] long, peduncle, 1.6" [4 cm] long, fliliform, rachis zigzag, successively 1 to 2, few flowered inflorescence with tiny floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Pabstiella gracilicaulis (Seehawer) Luer 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchidee (Hamburg) 56: 461 Seehawer 2005 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Pabstiella gracilicaulis;
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