Pleurothallis pardipes Rchb. f. 1872 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photos courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website
Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name The Spotted Footed Pleurothallis [reers to the brown spotted sheaths]
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout, slightly compressed beneatht the apex, channeled ramicauls enveloped basally by 2, brown speckled sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, bidentate apically, basally rounded into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a few, shorter than the leaf, few to several flowered inflorescence arising through a small, ancipitous, acute spathe and has retuse, apiculate, shorter than the ovaries floral bracts.
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.
Synonyms Acianthera pardipes (Rchb. f.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* W.W.Saunders, 2: t. 119 Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872
W.W.Saunders, 2: t. 119 Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 drawing fide;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:533 Martius, Cogniaux 1893;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:245 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera pardipes
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