Pleurothallis rufobrunnea Lindl. 1859
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Common Name The Red-Brown Pleurothallis
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in western Mexico at elevations of 1800 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramciauls enveloped mostly by a 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer fall and winter on an erect, distichous, 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] long, nearly simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has infundibular floral bracts.
"Distinguished by a short cooumn with an apical anther and stigma and three more or less equal sepals, less than .06" [1.5 mm] long, the minute petals are obovate and the simple lip is ovate, obtuse and concave towards the apex but callous below." Luer 1999
Synonyms Apatostelis rufobrunnea (Lindl.) Garay 1979; Humboldtia rufobrunnea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Stelis rufobrunnea (Lindl.) L.O.Williams 1939
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 13(1- 2) Solano . DICIEMBRE 1993 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;
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