Pleurothallis parva Rolfe 1895

Drawing by © Pabst

Common Name The Small Flowered Pleurothallis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in southeastern Brazil without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with terete ramicauls carrying a single, apical, minute, thick, fleshy, linear, obtuse, canaliculate convolute below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on a .48" [1.2 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with a triangular-ovate, acute, as long as the pedicel floral bract and carrying totally, intense white flowers.

Synonyms Acianthera parva (Rolfe) F.Barros & L.R.S.Guim. 2010; Pleurothallis sonderanoides Hoehne 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1895: 33 Rolfe 1895;

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:526 Martius, Cogniaux 1896;

Arch. Inst. Biol. Defesa Agric. 2: 30 Hiehne 1929 as P sonderanoides;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975;

Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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