Pleurothallis hoffmannseggiana Rchb. f. 1849 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Photo by Americo Docha Neto

Another View Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista.

Common Name Hoffmansegg's Pleurothallis [German Entomologist 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil as a miniature sized epiphyte with ancipitous ramicauls carrying oblong, narrowing at both ends, apically tridenticulate, fleshy leaves that blooms on very short, arising through a lanceolate, acute spathe, much shorter than the leaf, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with imbricate floral bracts.

CAUTION Pabst has this flower above as correct and his drawing of P aphthosa has the lateral sepals fused into a synsepal. They very well be synomonous with P aphthosa taking precedence.

Synonyms Acianthera hoffmannseggiana (Rchb.f.) F.Barros 2003; Humboldtia hoffmannseggiana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis loefgrenii Cogn. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Linnaea 22: 827 Rchb.f 1850;

Flora Brasilensis 3(4): 528 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) 1896;

Flora Brasilensis 3(6): 559 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) 1896 as P loefgrenii;

Flora Brasilensis 3(6): tab 116 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) 1896; as P loefgrenii Drawing fide;

Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1896 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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 Acianthera hoffmanseggiana

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