Pleurothallis magalhaesii Pabst 1975 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Holotype and Drawing by Pabst
Common Name or Meaning Magalhaes' Pleurothallis [Brazilian Collector of the type ]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found Minas Gerais and Bahia states of Brazil in the Atlantic rainforest at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters as a hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with thin, erect, inferior section terete, apex flatteed and triangular in crossection ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a short, arising through a spathe, frequently fasciculate, .24" [6 mm] long, much shorter than the leaf, simultaneosuly 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.
Similar to P luteola but P megalhaesii is smaller, has elliptic leaves [vs subcordate], smaller flowers with different shaped parts. Also similar to P heringeri but it is more vigorous, its flowers are on much longer, non fasciculate inflorescence and the labellum has falcate lateral lobes and a less visible mentum." Campacci and Baptista 2004
Synonyms *Acianthera bohnkiana Campacci & Baptista 2004; Acianthera magalhanesii (Pabst) F.Barros 2003; Pleurothallis bohnkiana [Campacci & Baptista] comb. novo. Pfahl 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bradea 1: 489 Pabst 1975;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Bol. CAOB 54: 60 Campacci & Baptista 2004 as Acianthera bohnkiana drawing/photo fide;
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 Acianthera magalhaesii;
Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia Nomenclature note #4 Pfahl 2012 as Pleurothallis bohnkiana
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera magalhaesii photo fide
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