Pleurothallis capijumensis [Luer & Toscano] in ed.

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Capijuma Ranch Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, borne from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .08" [2 mm] long, racemose, .4" [1 cm] long, a loose, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicels floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pabstiella capijumensis Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 16:370 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES and Combinations IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;

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