Pleurothallis rinkei [Luer] comb novo Pfahl 2012 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Sicariae SUBSECTION Sicariae Luer 1986

Photo by © Byron Rinke

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Common Name Rinke's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador without locational data as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with sharply winged, laterally compressed, sulcate, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath above the base and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, the basal margins decurrent to 1.2" [3 cm] onto the ramicaul and blooms in the fall and winter on a single, to .8" [2 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf and arising through a basal spathe at the apex of the ramicaul.

Synonyms *Acianthera rinkei Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 drawing fide as Acianthera rinkei; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera rinkei photo fide

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