Pleurothallis neobradei Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Phloeophila Luer 1986 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium

Common Name The New Bradei Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an elongate, cylindrical rhizome enveloped by hairy sheaths and giving rise to a secondary stem every .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] carrying a single, apical, parellel to the substrate, green, elliptical, entire, acute, shortly conduplicate into the canaliculate, pseudo-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Phloeophila bradei (Schltr.) Garay 1974; Physosiphon bradei Schltr. 1922; Sansonia bradei (Schltr.) Chiron 2012; Specklinia neobradei (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Phloephila bradei; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Phloeophila bradei drawing ok; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia neobradei; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #1 2013 as Sansonia bradei photo fide

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