Pleurothallis mirabilis Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Mirabilia Luer 1986 TYPE for the SUBGENUS
Photo by Luiz Filipe Varella and his Flicker Website
Drawing by Chiron & Ximenes Bolsanello and Notes sur un groupe brésilien de Pabstiella (Pleurothallidinae, Orchidaceae) Chiron & Ximenes Bolsanello Richardiana X[2] Mars 2010
Common Name The Grand Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm] long
Found in southeastern Brazil at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose to shortly repent epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, close tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, fractiflex, few to 6 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Anthereon mirabilis (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Gyalanthos mirabilis (Schltr.) Szlach. & Marg. 2001; Pabstiella mirabilis (Schltr.) Brieger & Senghas 1976; Pleurothallis longicornu Kraenzl. 1921; Specklinia mirabilis (Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 274 Schlechter 1918;
Ark. Bot. 16(8): 13 Kraenzl. 1921 as P longicornu;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Pabstiella mirabilis drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 27: 195 Breiger & Senghas1976
Miniature Orchids Northen 1980 as Pabstiella mirabilis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993 as Pabstiella mirabilis photo ok;
Polish Bot. J. 46: 116 Szlach & Marg 2001 as Gyalanthos mirabilis;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4: 252 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Antheron mirabilis;
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 mirabilis;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Pabstiella mirabilis photo fide;
FILOGENIA MOLECULAR E BIOGEOGRAFIA DE Pabstiella BRIEGER & SENGHAS (ORCHIDACEAE NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ MORALES 2019 photo fide as Pabstiella mirabilis photo fide;
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