Pleurothallis gossameri [Luer & Toscano] in ed

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

EARLY

Common Name The Gossamer Pleurothallis [an allusion to the tiny plant]

Flower Size .12” [3 mm]

Found in Bahia state of Brazil without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1.12 to 1.2" [2.8 to 3 cm] long, long-pedicellate, a single possibly 2 flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract

Synonyms Pabstiella gossameri Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 374 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;

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