Pleurothallis maculiglossa [Chiron & N.Sanson] comb novo Pfahl 2013 SUBGENUS Acianthera

Side View of Flower Photos by © Chiron & N.Sanson and The Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Spotted Tongue Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .04" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo Brazil at elevations around 1150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, long-repent epiphyte with cylindrical ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, flat, lanceolate, subacute, shortly conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on 1 to 3, .2" [5 mm] long peduncle, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and has a tubular floral bract.

Similar to P saundersiana but distinguished by the smaller flowersdenticulate petals, the lateral lobes of the lip triangular, a smooth median lobe and a different shaped spotted lip.

Synonyms *Acianthera maculiglossa Chiron & N.Sanson 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Richardiana 9: 121 Chiron & N.Sanson 2009 as Acianthera maculiglossa ;

Richardiana 9: 121 Chiron & N.Sanson 2009 as Acianthera maculiglossa drawing fide

* Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia Nomenclature notes #4 Pfahl 2013

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