Pleurothallis melachila Barb.Rodr.1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photos By © Dalton Holland Baptista and Amerigo Docha Neto
TYPE Drawings By © Barbosa Rodriguez, Courtesy of the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Black Lipped Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil at elevations around 360 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, repent epiphyte with erect, thin, flexuous ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptical, margins somewhat revolute, fleshy, ovate-oblong, minutely tridenticulate apically, sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, arising through a basal sheath, robust, short, single, thin, somewhat flexuous, .4" [1 cm] long, much shorter than the leaf, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Acianthera melachila (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 19 Barb Rodr 1881 as P melachyla;
Flora Brasilensis 3(4):465 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasilensis 3(4):tab 93 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
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 melachila
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