Pleurothallis panduripetala Barb.Rodr. 1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo by Cogniaux
Common Name The Lute-Shaped Petal Pleurothallis [refers to the shape of the petal]
Flower Size
Found in Santa Catarina and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, repent epiphyte with erect, bent ramicauls enveloped by 3 short lived sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, succulent-like, shell shaped, dark olive green to purple, conduplicate leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on to 3, in a fascile, .28" [7mm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acianthera panduripetala (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pleurothallis kraenzliniana Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis panduripetala var. minor Hoehne 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 12 Barb Rodr. 1881;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:473 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 as P kraenzliniana;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:460 Martius, Cogniaux 1896;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 96Martius, Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Trichosalpinx Luer 1997;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:245 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera panduripetala;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera panduripetala photo fide
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