Pleurothallis ramosa Barb.Rodr.1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium
Drawing by Barbosa Rodrigues
Common Name or Meaning The Branched Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Ecuador and Minas Gerais state of Brazil on relict trees at elevations of 900 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, repent epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect ramicaul enveloped by 1 to 2 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate to elliptic, reflexed apices, conduplicate, leathery, dark olive green tarnished white leaf that blooms in the fall on a short, arising through a spathe, to .32" [8 mm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence
Part of the P miqueliana alliance Pabst P gouveiae , P macucoensis, P miqueliana, P nemorosa, and P papillosa
Synonyms Acianthera ramosa (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 17 Brab Rodr 1881;
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): 436 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasilensis 3(4): Tab 92 (C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs Band 1 1975 drawing hmm;
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 Acianthera ramosa;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing ok;
Orchids of Tropical America Meisel 2014 photo not?;
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