Pleurothallis heterophylla (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.1896 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
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Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by Helmut Seehauer
Drawing by Cogniaux
Common Name or Meaning The Different leaved Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Bahia, Rio de Janiero, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Parana' and Santa Catarina states of Brazil in wet humid forests at elevations of 700 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 brown sheaths and carrying a single, apical, various shaped from lanceolate to elliptical, leathery, dark olive green to wine red, conduplicate and attenuate into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on and erect, peduncle .2 to .4" [5 to 10 mm] long, rachis .52 to 1.2" [1.3 to 3 cm] long, mostly simultaneously 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with longer to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.
Pleurothallis liparanges is characterized by the obovate-oblong leaves, inflorescence with ca. 4 to 6, yellow flowers and relatively large, long and narrow sepals and petals and a an ovate, slightly trilobed lip with an auricular base. It resembles P gert-hatschbachii, from which it is distinguished by its smaller size, the relatively shorter inflorescence and the trilobed lip.
Synonyms Anathallis heterophylla Barb.Rodr. 1881; Anathallis liparanges (Rchb.f.) Luer 2008; Pleurothallis hoehnei Schltr. 1926; Pleurothallis liparanges Rchb.f. 1885; Specklinia heterophylla (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004; Specklinia liparanges (Rchb.f.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 74 Barb Rodr. 1881
Gard. Chron., n.s., 23: 532 Rchb.f 1885 as P liparanges;
* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:556 Martius, Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab111 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 215 Hoehne 1926 as P hoehnei;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P heterophylla drawing ok;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:249 Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Anathallis heterophylla
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 heterophlla;
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 liparanges;
Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 as P heterophylla drawing ok;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 as Pleurothallis heterophylla drawing fide;
Novon 18: 78 Luer 2008 as Anathallis liparanges;
Harvard Papers in Botany , Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 39–68 2015,© NEW SPECIES AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES IN THEPLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Luer & Toscano 2015 as Anathallis heterophylla;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis heterophylla photo fide
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