Pleurothallis cymbiformis Dod 1984 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Cryptophoranthae Luer 1986

Plant and flowers Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website.

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Common Name The Boat-Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the synsepal]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with stout, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, denticulate-erose margins, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, .1 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with an oblique floral bract.

Synonyms Acianthera cymbiformis (Dod) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Acianthera erosa (Garay) ined.; Cryptophoranthus erosus Garay 1969; Dondodia erosa (Garay) Luer 2006; Specklinia erosa (Garay) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol III Luer 1986; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Dondodia erosa drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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