Pleurothallis minimifolia Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto.

TYPE Drawing of Cryptophoranthus minimus

drawing of Cryptophoranthus minimus by © Cogniaux

Drawing of Cryptophoranthus minimus

drawing of Cryptophoranthus minimus by © Pabst

Common Name The Small Leafed Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Brazil to the south of Minas Gerais as a mini-miniature sized, repent epiphyte with short, pale ramicauls carrying a single, apiicla, green purple spotted above, green beneath, thickly flesny, somewhat convex, obovate-oblong, acute apically, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect to erect-patent, shortly pedicellate, quite thin, somewhat flexuous, pale green, .16 to .24" [4 to 6 mm] long, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Acianthera minima (Cogn.) F.Barros 2002; Acianthera minimifolia (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Cryptophoranthus minimus Cogn. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:552 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as Cryptophoranthis minimus drawing fide;

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab115 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as Cryptophoranthis minimus;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Cryptophoranthus minimus drawing ok;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:244 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera minimifolia;

Bradea 8: 295 F Barros 2002 as Acianthera minima;

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