Pleurothallis parvifolia Lindl. 1837 SUBGENUS Mirabilia Luer 1986
Photo by © Jorge Miguel Conejo Chaverri and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Karremans
Another Flower, less typical color form
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Small Leaved Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, northern Brazil, Ecuador and Peru in rainforests on small trees close to water at elevations around 300 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with negligible ramicauls and carrying a single, apical, dark purple green, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, basal, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with a single, rather large, raggedy sheath enveloping the rachis
Synonyms Humboltia parvifolia (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes cryptophyta Barb.Rodr. 1881; Muscarella cryptophyta [ Barb Rodr.] Bogarin & Karremans 2020; Pabstiella parvifolia (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis subumbellata Cogn. 1907; Pleurothallis succedanea Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Specklinia parvifolia (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 355. Lindley 1836; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay Vol 3 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 282 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing good; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch 2000; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklinia parvifolia; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide ;Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Pabstiella parvifolia drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella cryptophyta photo fide
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