Anathallis funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Luer

"Anathallis funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Lueris found in French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and northern Brazil. It grows in wet montane forests at elevations around 300 to 1600 meters..."

Anathallis funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 115: 258 (2009).

Anathallis funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Luer; Photos by Nello Marsilio

its native range is Panama to S. Tropical America.

Latinh Name: 

Anathallis funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Luer

Synonym:

Anathallis breviscapa (C.Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Lepanthes funerea Barb.Rodr.

Panmorphia funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Luer

Pleurothallis breviscapa C.Schweinf.

Pleurothallis funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.

Pleurothallis praemorsa Luer

Specklinia breviscapa (C.Schweinf.) Luer

Specklinia funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Luer

Specklinia praemorsa (Luer) Luer

English Name:

The Dark Pleurothallis (refers to the lip).

Description: 

With erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 3, loose fitting, tubular, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, minutely carinate and mucronate apically, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, from the base of the leaf, 1.2" [3 cm] long, filiform, minutely white pubescent, successively few, single flowered inflorescence that lengthens and becomes fractiflex as blooming continues and has triangular, floral bracts.

Distribution:

Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela.

Ecological:

In wet montane forests at elevations around 300 to 1600 [2400] meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte .

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Warm

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Type:

im Thurn, E. [181], Guyana Pleurothallis breviscapa 61575.000 isotype