Pleurothallis malmeana Dutra ex Pabst 1959 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium
Drawing by Helmut Seehauer
EARLIER 
Common Name or Meaning Dr Malme's Pleurothallis [Swedish Botanist in Brazil 1800's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Rio Grande Do Sul state of Brazil in montane primary forests at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5 brown tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, flat, lanceolate, conduplicate, leathery to stiff leaf that blooms in the spring through earlier summer on a 2.8 to 4.8" [7 to 2 cm] long, mostly simultaneous, 5 to 11 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Anathallis malmeana (Dutra ex Pabst) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia malmeana (Dutra ex Pabst) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Sellowia 10: 130 Dutra ex Pabst 1959;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:249 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Anathallis malmeana;
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 malmeana;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide
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