Pleurothallis deuterofreyi [Luer & Toscano] in ed.

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

LATER

Common Name The Second Frey Pleurothallis [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast early 2000's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle slender, ca. 2" [5 cm] long, a loose, flexuous, long-pedicellate to 4" [10 cm] long overall, successively single, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescecnce, with shorter than the pedicels floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pabstiella freyi Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 16:373 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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