Pleurothallis parvifolia Lindl. 1837 SUBGENUS Mirabilia Luer 1986
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Lindley
Common Name or Meaning The Small Leaved Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, northern Brazil, Ecuador and Peru in rainforests on small trees close to water at elevations around 300 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with negligible ramicauls and carrying a single, apical, dark purple green, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, basal, with a single, rather large, raggedy sheath enveloping the rachis, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by the small, subcircular to broadly elliptical leaves borne by very short ramicuals and far surpassed by a filiform peduncle that bears a congested, umbelliform raceme of successive flowers. The lateral sepals are obtuse and connate to an elongated column-foot to form a mentum. The petals are large, fleshy, three veined and broadly rounded at the apex, an exception in the genus. The lip is arcuate, broadly elliptical, obtuse and minutely verrucose within." Luer 2006
Synonyms Andreettaea cryptophyta (Barb.Rodr.) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):3 2022; Humboltia parvifolia (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes cryptophyta Barb.Rodr. 1881; Muscarella cryptophyta [ Barb Rodr.] Bogarin & Karremans 2020; Pabstiella parvifolia (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis subumbellata Cogn. 1907; Pleurothallis succedanea Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Specklinia parvifolia (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 355. Lindley 1836;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia parvifolia;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:486 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 not = P cryptophyta ;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab 116 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 drawing not = P cryptophyta;
Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 313 Cogn. 1907 as P subumbellata;
Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 224 Hoehne & Schlechter 1926 as P succedanea;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay Vol 3 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 282 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing good;
Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch 2000;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;
Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:258 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia parvifolia;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Pabstiella parvifolia
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Pabstiella parvifolia drawing fide;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo;
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 Muscarella cryptophyta photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):3 2022 as Andreettaea cryptophyta
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