Pleurothallis pleurothalloides (Cogn.) Handro 1958 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

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Drawing

Drawing by Luer

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Cogniaux

Common NameThe Pleurothallis-Like Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo and Parana' states of Brazil at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect to ascending ramicauls carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to obtuse, abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, peduncle erect, 3.2" [8 cm] long, rachis 1" [2.5 cm] long, slightly fractiflex, successively 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Effusiella pleurathalloides (Cogn.) Campacci 2011; Pabstiella pleurothalloides (Cogn.) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis campestris var. longipedunculata Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis edwallii Dusén & Schltr. 1918; Pleurothallis pfsteri Braem & Braas 1980; *Restrepia pleurothalloides Cogn. 1906; Specklinia pleurothalloides (Cogn.) Luer 2004;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Flora Brasiliensis C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 3[4]:294 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 as P campestris var longipedunclulata;

Flora Brasiliensis C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 3(6): 566 Cogniaux 1906 as Restrepia pleurothalloides;

Flora Brasiliensis C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 3(6): Tab 117 Cogniaux 1906 as Restrepia pleurothalloides drawing fide;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 270 Schlechter 1918 as P edwallii nom. illeg.;

*Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 3: 175 Handro 1958;

Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as P edwallii drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 31: 251 Braem & Braas 1980 as P pfisteri;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia pleurothalloides;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Pabstiella pleurothalloides;

Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 9: 339 Campacci 2011 as Effusiella pleurothalloides;

Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2013, pp. 241–257 RECONSIDERATION OF PABSTIELLA PLEUROTHALLOIDES AND DESCRIPTION OF PABSTIELLA VARELLAE, A NEWSPECIES CONFUSED WITH PABSTIELLA CAMPESTRIS (PLEUROTHALLIDINAE:ORCHIDACEAE Toscano & Luer 2013 as Pabstiella pleurothalloides

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