Pleurothallis graveolens Pabst 1975 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo by Roberto Martins and His Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Chiron & Bolsanello
Common Name or Meaning The Very Fragrant Pleurothallis
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in southern Bahia and Espirito Santo States of Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose to shortly repent epiphyte or rupicolous lithophyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, elliptical, dark green to wine colored, abruptly narrowing below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 1.2" [3 cm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence carrying very fragrant flowers
Synonyms Anathallis graveolens (Pabst) F.Barros 2006; Specklinia graveolens (Pabst) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bradea 1: 488 Pabst 1975;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
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 graveolens;
Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 photo good/drawing good; Bradea 11: 30 F Barros 2006 as Anathallis graveolens;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Anathallis graveolens;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis graveolens drawing good
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