Pleurothallis silvanae [Chiron & Xim.Bols.] in ed SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo by Guy Chiron/TYPE Drawing of Pabstiella silvanae by © Chiron & Bolsanello and Trois espčces nouvelles de Pabstiella (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) en Espírito Santo (Brésil Chiron & Bolsanello 2012
Common Name Silvana's Pleurothallis [Brazilian discoverer of the species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in patches of humid Atlantic coastal forests at elevations around 990 meters as a very mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with subcylindrical ramicauls without sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, obovate, apically rounded and tridenticulate, fleshy, light green, with a marked midrib, attenuate below into the pseudopetiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul through a very short, amplexical spathe, peduncle filiform, rigid, .96" [2.4 cm] long, provided with 2 sterile bract, rachis fractiflex, elongating, filirom, 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with tubular, acute, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying a nodding flower.
"Similar to P neolueriana, P neonymphalis and P freyi but distinguished by a much more branching ansd short, , always naked, a shorter inflorescence the length of the leaf vs twice as long, the lateral sepals are more connate, the petals are wider and thicker apically, vs apiculate and not thickened apically." Chiron & Bolsanello 2012." Chiron & Ximenes Bolsanello 2012
Synonyms *Pabstiella silvanae Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Trois espčces nouvelles de Pabstiella (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) en Espírito Santo (Brésil Chiron & Bolsanello 2012 as Pabstiella silvanae Drawing/photo fide
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