Pleurothallis ourobranquensis [Campacci & Menini] in ed. SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Lindley 1859 Photos by © Dalton Holland Baptista Photo by Jay Pfahl TYPE Drawing by Marcos Campacci Common Name or Meaning The Ourobranco Pleurothallis [A town in central Minas Gerais Brazil]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found above the city of Ourobranco in very exposed vellozia trees at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a clear green, cylindrical ramicaul enveloped basally by a tubular sheath that carries a single, apical, erect, thickly fleshy, clear green to yellow, lanceolate to oblanceolate, conduplicate leaf with an acute apice [very succulent looking in situ, leaves become less so in cultivation] that blooms in the spring on a .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, 2 flowered infloresence.
This species grows on high hills around the city of Ourobranco and is found on non-mosssy vellozia trees.
Very similar to P dryadum but this one differs in always having 2 flowers per inflorescence while P dryadum has 4 to 7 flowers per inflorescence.
Many authors include P crebrifolia, P montipelladensis and P ourobranquensis as Synonyms of P aristulata, I have left them separate for now.
Synonyms *Anathallis ourobranquensis Campacci & Menini 2005 publish 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Boletim CAOB No 60 4/2006 photo/drawing fide; NEW SPECIES AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES IN THEPLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Luer & Toscano 2015 as as Synonym of Anathallis aristula;
Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019 as a synonym of Anathallis aristulata
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis orobranquensis photo fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
