Pleurothallis hymenantha Lindl. 1835 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindl. 1859

Drawing by J . Ch. Descourtilz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria website

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Common Name The Delicately Flowered Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil and Cuba as a miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with a small, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, minutely tridenticulate apically, cuneate belo into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a strict to slightly flexuous, straw colored, .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 mm] long, terete, few flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the leaf and stem.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms Humboldtia hymenantha Kuntze 1891; Pabstiella hymenantha (Lindl.) Luer 2007; Specklinia hymenantha (Lindl.) F.Barros & V.T.Rodrigues 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 21: t. 1797 Lindley 1835;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia hymenantha;

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:480 Martius, Cogniaux 1896;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;

Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987;

Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Pabstiella hymenantha;

Bradea 14: 24 F Barros & V T Rodrigues 2009 as Specklinia hymenantha;

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