Pleurothallis viridiflora Seehawer 1999
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Photos by © Helmut Seehawer
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THROUGH MID
Common Name The Green Flowered Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 1000 meters as a mini-miiniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, membraneous, short-lived, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, faintly conduplicate leaf that blooms in the summer through mid fall on a 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence arisng through a spathe at the base of the leaf.
Synonyms *Specklinia viridiflora (Seehawer) F.J.de Jesus, M.R.Miranda & Chiron 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchidee (Hamburg) 50: 637 Seehawer 1999;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Richardiana 14: 284 F J de Jesus, M R Miranda & Guy Chiron 2014 as Specklinia viridiflora;
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