Pleurothallis ramosa Barb.Rodr.1881 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Common Name or Meaning The Branched Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Ecuador and Brazil on relict trees at elevations of 900 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect ramicaul enveloped by 1 to 2 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate to elliptic, reflexed apices, conduplicate, leathery, dark olive green tarnished white leaf that blooms in the fall on a short to [8 mm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe.

Part of the miqueliana alliance Pabst which includes, P farinosa, P gouveiae, gonzalezii, macucoensis, miqueliana, nemorosa, papillosa and ramosa

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms Acianthera ramosa (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs Band 1 1975 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Acianthera ramosa; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing ok; Orchids of Tropical America Meisel 2014 photo not?;

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