Barbosella crassifolia

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Barbosella crassifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Pleurothallidinae
Genus: Barbosella
Species: B. crassifolia
Binomial name
Barbosella crassifolia
(Edwall) Schltr. (1918)
Synonyms
  • Restrepia crassifolia Edwall (1903) (Basionym)
  • Pleurothallis hamburgensis Kraenzl. (1911)
  • Barbosella crassifolia var. aristata Hoehne (1947)
  • Barbosella crassifolia var. genuina Hoehne (1947)
  • Barbosella crassifolia var. minor Hoehne (1947)
  • Barbosella hamburgensis (Kraenzl.) Hoehne (1947)
  • Barbosella crassifolia var. hamburgensis (Kraenzl.) Garay (1953)

Barbosella crassifolia is a species of orchid.

Location

Found in southern and eastern Brazil in dense primary forests at an elevation of 950 to 1500 meters.

Characteristics

Barbosella crassifolia is a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, mat forming epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by a thin, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, prostrate, thickly coriaceous, suborbicular to elliptical, entire apically, obtuse rounded, rounded and contracted below into the nearly absent petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, erect, 0.6 to 1.12" [1.5 to .8 cm] long, single flowered inflorscence with a minute bract below the middle and an oblique floral bract.


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