Acianthera aphthosa (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Acianthera aphthosa (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16(4): 242 (2001).

Acianthera aphthosa (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Koos Peters

its native range is W. South America to SE. & S. Brazil.

Latinh Name: 

Acianthera aphthosa (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Pleurothallis aphthosa Lindl.

Pleurothallis ciliata var. abbreviata C.Schweinf.

Pleurothallis macrophyta Barb.Rodr.

Pleurothallis pelioxantha Barb.Rodr.

Specklinia aphthosa (Lindl.) F.Barros

English Name:

No common name has yet been provided in this gallery

Description: 

With 2, basal, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate, shortly decurrent, obtusely bilobed or retuse, thickly coriaceous, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms on an apical, short, few to many flowered, fasciculate inflorescence enveloped by 2 to 4, basal tubular bracts that is held at the leaf base and has a foul odor all occuring in the winter and spring.

Distribution:

Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru.

Ecological:

A small sized, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species and found in wet montane forests and evergreen forests at altitudes of 250 to 1450 m with a channeled ramicaul.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and spring.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in intermediate to warm conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org

- orchids.fandom.com

- ecuagenera.com