Pleurothallis recurva Lindl.

 

Orchid Species: Pleurothallis recurva

Kew currently accepted name is Acianthera recurva

Pleurothallis recurva is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1841. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Acianthera recurva.

Genus

Pleurothallis (Pths.)

Grex

recurva

Parents

Species

Author

Lindl.

Year

1841

ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations of 600 to 1400 meters in semi wet forests, wet montane forests and primary cloud forests.

DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool, growing, creeping epiphyte with ramicauls entirely enveloped by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate, fleshy, conduplicate, dark olive green, purple flecked beneath, mostly prostrate leaf that blooms in the late spring through earlier fall on 1 to 2, apical, racemose, pendulous, 1 to 2 [2.5 to 5 cm] long, 3 to 9 flowered inflorescence with up to 5 flowers open at any one time.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 or less -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

orchids.org/grexes/pleurothallis-recurva

Acianthera recurva - Wikimedia Commons

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