Pleurothallis gracilis Barb.Rodr. 1877 SUBGENUS Arthrosia Luer 1986
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Common Name The Graceful Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil as a miniature sized, cool growing, repent epiphyte with erect, flexuous, apically thickening ramiocauls carrying a single, apical, intense green-purple spotted, pale green beneath, elliptic, rounded, gradually narrowling below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on 2 to 3, erect, 2.8 to 4.8" [7 to 12 cm] long, successively few, many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Acianthera gracilis (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros & L.R.S.Guim. 2010; Arthrosia gracilis (Barb.Rodr.) Campacci 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 6 Barb Rodr.1877
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:412 Martius, Cogniaux 1893;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 87 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
Bol. CAOB 69-70: 26 Campaci 2008 as Arthrosia gracilis
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