Pleurothallis boliviana Rchb.f. 1855 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Bolivian Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Bolivia at elevations of 600 to 2450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with ascending-erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 basal, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subconduplicate, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, distichous, compressed, 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and has narowly acute, conduplicate floral bracts.

Synonyms Acianthera boliviana (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboltia boliviana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1984; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera boliviana photo fide

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