Pleurothallis intraptila [Chiron & Xim.Bols.] comb. novo. Pfahl 2013 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842 photo by © Chiron & Xim.Bols and © The Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Internally Pubescent Pleurothallis

Flower Size .52" [1.3 cm]

Found in Parana' Brazil at elevations below 800 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, very short, cylindrical ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, rounded apically, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, filiform, strongly fractiflex, .8 to 2" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, successively 2, few flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul

Synonyms *Pabstiella intraptila Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Richardiana XI(3):136-141 Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2011. drawing as Pabstiella dasilvae drawing fide

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