Pleurothallis privigna Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLIER

Common Name The Stepdaughter Pleurothallis [Refers to the imagined relationship with P trichophora]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic in cloud forests at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by a loose tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, verrucose with denticulate-undulate margins, cuneate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in earlier fall on an erect,arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf lax, .28" [7 mm] long peduncle, more or less simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract.

The flowers are very similar to the much larger plant of P trichophora but P privigna differs in the arcuate petals that are narrowly oblong below the middle and very narrowly linear above the middle and the lip is smaller with a proportionately longer claw.

Synonyms Antilla privigna (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Lindleyana 14: 118 Luer 1999 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide;

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 Antilla privigna;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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