Pleurothallis pectinata Lindl. 1839 SUBGENUS Acianthera
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Joe Parker.
Photo by Marius Wasbauer.
Drawing by © F C Hoehne
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Common NameThe Comb-Like Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Bolivia and Brazil around Rio de Janiero at elevations around 370 to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, shortly repent epiphyte with erect, apically widening ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, round leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a short, arising through a spathe, short, distichous, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Acianthera pectinata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Humboldtia pectinata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis pectinata var. major Cogn. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 25(Misc.): 1 Lindley 1839;
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:413 Martius, Cogniaux 1893
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4: Tab 88 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 as P pectinata var major drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo fide;
Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Icones Pleurothallidonarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 11 1996 photo fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:245 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera pectinata;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera pectinata photo fide
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