Pleurothallis violacea A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

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Photos by © Rodolfo Hernandez

Drawing

Drawing by Carl Luer

Through EARLY

Common Name The Violet Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern Mexico, Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala and El Salvador in montane rainforests and elfin forests at elevations of 950 to 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, terete, 2 internoded ramicauls enveloped partially by tubular, obtuse, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute and tridenticulate apically, sessile, abaxially tinged with purple leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a terminal, 1 to 3 per stem, racemose, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, congested, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

Synonyms Acianthera violacea (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboltia amoena (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia cochlearis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia violacea (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis amoena A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Pleurothallis cochlearis Rchb.f. 1852; Pleurothallis rhynchoglossa Schltr. 1915;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 16 A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952;

Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;

Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide;

Phytologia 54: 398 Luer 1983 as Trichosalpinx violaceae;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:246 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera violacea;

Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 513 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Acianthera violacea 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

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 Drawing fide;

Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez Lopez & Dressler 2005 as Acianthera violacea;

Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 as Acianthera violacea photo fide;

Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Acianthera violacea photo fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera violacea photo fide

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