Pleurothallis sulcata Porsch 1905 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Porsch and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name The Sulcate Pleurothallis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo states of Brazil at elevations of 50 to 500 meters as a robust, miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with longitudinally distinctly sulcate ramicauls carrying a single, glabrous, very fleshy, elliptic, as long as to a bit longer thatn the ramicual, subrotund apically, bidenticulate, single nerved, prominent beneath leaf that blooms in the winter on a subdistichous, racemose-fasciculate, shortly pedicellate, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with a basal, scarious, glabrous bract.

Synonyms Acianthera sulcata (Porsch) F.Barros & V.T.Rodrigues 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 157 Porsch 1905;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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