Pleurothallis tigridens Loefgr. 1918

SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842 Photo by © Marcelo Rodrigues

Flower Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Loefgren and The Plant Illustrations Website

Full shade Warm Summer

Common Name The Tiger-Toothed Pleurothallis [refers to the teeth like projections of the column wings]

Flower Size

Found in Rio De Janeiro Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, imbricating, orange-brown, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, flattish, elliptical, leathery, faintly conduplicate , narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, successively single, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Anathallis tigridens (Loefgr.) Luer & Toscano 2009; Panmorphia tigridens (Loefgr.) Luer 2006; Specklinia tigridens (Loefgr.) Luer 2004;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia tigridens; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis tigridens drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis tigridens photo fide

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