Pleurothallis odontotepala Rchb.f. 1865 SUBGENUS Acianthera Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

Common Name The Toothed Tepals Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic and Jamaica in shady and humid places in montane rainforests from 600 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect to ascending , laterally compressed ramicauls enveloped by 3, tubular, conduplicate sheaths to below the middle and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate to elliptic, acute, tridentate, glabrous, carinate, entire, slughtly revolute, shortly attenuate to obtuse into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 4, terminal, ascending to prostrate, glabrous, .15 to .25" [3 to 8 mm] long, successively to subsimultaneoulsy opening, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and a conduplicate, acute sheath

Synonyms Acianthera odontotepala (Rchb.f.) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis brachypetala Griseb. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as P brachypetala drawing fide; Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987; Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987 as P brachypetala; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Acianthera odontopetala; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide

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