Pleurothallis oligantha Barb.Rodr. 1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by Barbosa Rodrigues
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Common Name The Sparse Blooming Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in monane forests on trees as a small sized, shortly repent epiphyte with erect to ascendingm somewhat flexuous, somewhat distant, pale grwwn ramicauls carrying a single, apical, somewhat small, slightly refeleed above, rigis, subplanar, intense green, fleshy, elliptic-oblong, obtuse and minutely tridenticulate apically, sessile base laef that blooms in the late spring, summer and early fall on a very short, aising through an erect, rigid, laterally compressed spathe, simultaneously 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acianthera oligantha (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 33 Barb Rodr. 1881
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): 523 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): tab 106 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
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 oligantha;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera oligantha photo good
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