Pleurothallis brevipes H.Focke 1849 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Short Column Foot Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Surinam, Ecuador and Bolivia in rain forests at elevations of 100 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with ascending to horizontal, slender ramicauls carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptical, obtuse to rounded, light green with purple spotting, cuneate below to the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an suberect, 1.4" [3.5 cm], to 15 successively flowered, racmose inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
Synonyms Anathallis brevipes (H.Focke) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Anathallis modesta (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia brevipes (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes modesta Barb.Rodr. 1881; Panmorphia brevipes (H.Focke) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis modesta (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896; Specklinia bradei (H.Focke) Luer 2004; Specklinia modesta (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as P modesta drawing not; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P modesta drawing hmm; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Ibisch & Vasquez 2000 photo hmm; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis brevipes; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia brevipes; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia brevipes drawing good; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 as P modesta drawing ok; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis brevipes drawing good/photo ok; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis brevipes photo fide
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