Pleurothallis serrulatipetala Barb.Rodr.1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Plant and Flower

Photo by © K Senghas, Courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Drawing

Drawing by © Cogniaux

Full shade Winter

Common Name or Meaning The Serrate Petal Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil as a miniature sized, repent epiphyte with erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, elliptic, bidentate apically, shortly cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the early winter on an erect, arising through a spathe, successivly single, few flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Acianthera serrulatipetala (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 33 Barb Rodr. 1881;

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:519 Martius, Cogniaux 1893

Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab103 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

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