Pleurothallis bidentata Lindl. 1835 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Orchid Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Two Toothed Pleurothallis [refers to the forked lip]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero Brazil on trunks in remnant gallery forests at elevations around 250 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender basally becoming thicker above ramicauls enveloped by 5 sheths and carrying asingel, apical, erect, narrolwy lanceolate, conduplicate, leathery to stiff, light olive green leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a short, .08 to .16” [2 to 4 mm] long, successively 2 to 3, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Acianthera bidentata (Lindl.) F.Barros & V.T.Rodrigues 2009; Humboltia bidentata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasiliensis Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide

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