Pleurothallis miguelii Schltr. 1913 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning Miguel's Pleurothallis [Dominican Padre Miguel Fuertes, first collector of species 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic in forests at elevations around 700 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped below the middle by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and spring on a strict, lax, secund, minutely scabrous, 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously few to several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has a tubular floral bract

Synonyms Acianthera miguelii (Schltr.) Luer 2004; Anathallis miguelii (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Acianthera miguelii; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide

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