Pleurothallis bradei Schltr. 1922

SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842 Photo by © Marcelo Rodrigues and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Brade's Pleurothallis [German Botanist in Brazil late 1800 - early 1900's]

Flower Size .2” [5 mm]

Found in Sao Paulo Brazil in wet primary, but open forests at elevations of 800 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramcauls enveloped by 3 trumpet-shaped, close, recurved, hairy margined, purple lined sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, broadly lanceolate, dark olive green, stiff, indistinctly conduplicate, attenuate below into the pseudo-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and early fall on a 1.4” [3.5 cm] long, elongating, fractiflex, first flower at leaf height, successively single to occasionally 2, alternately 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pabstiella bradei (Schltr.) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis ramphastorhyncha var. caespitosa Porsch 1908; Trichosalpinx bradei (Schltr.) Luer 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasiliensis Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV 1997; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia bradei; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Pabstiella bradei; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide

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