Pleurothallis kautskyi Pabst 1973 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium
Drawing © Pabst
Common Name or Meaning Kautsky's Pleurothallis [Brazilian Orchid collector and enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with filiform, cylindric ramicauls enveloped by 3, solitary sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, minutely tridentate, attenuate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 2, filiform, longer than the leaf, 1.2" [3 cm] long, rachis at an angle to the peduncle, successively single, 5 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Anathallis kautskyi (Pabst) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Panmorphia kautskyi (Pabst) Luer 2006; Specklinia kautskyi (Pabst) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bradea 1: 330 Pabst 1973;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:249 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis kautskyi;
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 kautskyi;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Rconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia kautskyi;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis kautskyi drawing/photo fide
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