Pleurothallis sansonii [Luer & Toscano] in ed

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

LATE EARLY

Common Name Sanson's Pleurothallis [Nelson Sanson Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast and cultivator of the species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 loose, tubular sheaths near the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, rachis .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, subflexuous, successively 1 to 2, few flowered inflorescence with almost as long to as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"This species is characterized by a subflexuous, purple-flowered raceme that eventually reaches the tip of the elliptical leaf. The dorsal sepal, synsepal, and the spathulate petals are glabrous; the lip is oblong and microscopically papillose above the middle, and with the sides erect and slightly dilated on the middle third, and with a pair of low calli also on the middle third." Luer & Toscano 2011

Synonyms *Pabstiella sansonii Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 379 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;

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