Pleurothallis acrogenia [Luer & Toscano] in ed.
Photos by © Sandro Lucas Xavier Tobias and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
EARLY
Common Name The Prominent Chin Pleurothallis [refers tothe mentum]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bahia and Espírito Santo states of Brazil at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with short, erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, light green, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute to subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiuolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, subflexuous, peduncle 1 to 1.8" [2.5 to 4.5 cm] long, arising from a node low on the ramicaul, 2.6" [6.5 cm] long overall, distichous, loosely to densely, successively several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel flower bracts.
Synonyms *Pabstiella acrogenia Luer & Toscano 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 16:369 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES and Combinations IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;
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