Pleurothallis klingelfusii [Luer & Toscano] in ed
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Common Name Klingelfus' Pleurothallis [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .4” [1 cm]
Found in Santa Catarina state of Brazil without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, arising through a spathe, peduncle .16 to .2" [4 to 5t mm] long, loose, successively 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with longer than the pedicel and ovary floral bracts.
One of the smallest members of the subgenus Acianthera, this species from southern Brazil and adjacent Argentina is distinguished by a loose, successively few-flowered raceme about as long as the thick, sessile leaf that arises from a cuneate base. The sepals are ciliate-carinate with sharply acute, thick tips. The petals are oblong, acute and microscopically erose. The proportionately small lip is thick, minutely verruculose, and ovate with the apex narrowly rounded, with a pair of calli on the middle third, and with erect, rounded marginal lobes below the middle." Luer & Toscano 2011
Synonyms *Acianthera klingelfusii Luer, Toscano & Baptista 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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