Pleurothallis breviflora Lindl. 1841

SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Short Flowered Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Oaxaca Mexico without collection data as a miniature sized presumably epiphytic orchid with a stout, erect ramicaul enveloped by 3 loose, tubular, spotted sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse, cuneate below into the subsessile base leaf that blooms on a thick, .04" [1 mm] long, abbreviated, congested, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence arising through a broad, loose, spotted spathe from the apex of the ramicaul and has an inflated, minutely pubescent floral bract

Synonyms Acianthera breviflora (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboldtia breviflora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide;

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