!Pleurothallopsis nemorosa (Barb.Rodr.) Porto & Brade 1937
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Forest Dwelling Pleurothallopsis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bahia and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil in shady forests at elevations of 200 to 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 loose, glabrous, tubular sheathsand carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellipitcal, subacute, cuneate below intio the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, slender, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
Separated from others by the caespitose habit, an elongated peduncle, smaller petals less than 1/2 the size of the sepals and laeral sepals connate into a synsepal.
Synonyms *Lepanthes nemorosa Barb.Rodr. 1881; Octomeria nemorosa (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 1991; Pleurothallis sylvatica Cogn. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Octomeria nemorosa drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001
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