Pleurothallis trichophora Lindl.1858 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000

TYPE fro the SUBGENUS

Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

Common Name The Three Haired Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in central Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic in shady or partially open places in montane rainforests from 900 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with ascending to pendent ramicauls enveloped to 2/3's the length by 4, scarious, conduplicate, carinate sheaths and carrying a single, apicaal, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, green to greyish green and slightly rough above, green beneath, acute base into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 8, arising through a conduplicate sheath terminal, slightly pendent, to 8" [20 cm] long, successively 2 to 15 flowered inflorescence with oblique, dilated shorter thant the pedicel floral bracts.

"The elliptical leaves are minutely denticulate on the margins. The inflorescence is a several flowered, nearly strict raceme, more than twice as long as the leaf. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are acute, the petals are narrowly acute and acuminate and the proportionally small lip is obovate with a cuneate claw below a pair of rounded, marginal lobes near the middle." Luer 2000

Synonyms Antilla trichophora (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboltia trichophora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 1: 326 Lindley 1858;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia trichophora;

Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987;

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;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 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 trichophora;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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