Pleurothallis macropoda Barb. Rodr. 1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera
Photo by of Jay Pfahl
Drawing by © Cogniaux
Common Name The Large Column Foot Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in primary forest at elevations of 700 to 850 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing, repent epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 short lived, light brown, with dark purple spotted sheaths and carryinjg a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, slightly infolded at the base, leathery, dark olive green, conduplicate leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 2, 3.2 to 5.2" [8 to 13 cm] long, rapidly successive, 12 to 20 flowered inflorescence arising through an acute spathe.
Synonyms Acianthera macropoda (Barb. Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Pleurothallis macropoda var. laevis Barb.Rodr. 1882
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 25 Barb Rodr 1881;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:534 Martius, Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 85 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:244 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera macropoda;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera macropoda photo fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
