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Orchid Species: Anathallis obovata

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Anathallis obovata is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
Genus
Anathallis (Anat.)
Grex
obovata
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Year
2001
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ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in premontane to montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, more or less aproximate, 3 to 4 jointed, ramicauls carrying several close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 2 to numerous, much shorter than the leaf, rarely to 3.12 [7.8 cm] long, loosely to 12 flowered inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths albida 1858 Lindl.
Add+ Anathallis Anat citrina 2001 (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Add+ Anathallis Anat dendrophila 2001 (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Add+ Anathallis Anat densiflora 1881 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Anathallis Anat fasciculata 1877 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Anathallis Anat guentheri 2001 (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Add+ Anathallis Anat micrantha 1881 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Anathallis Anat osmosperma 1881 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths angustilabia 1926 Hoehne & Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths brachyantha 1924 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths citrina 1920 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths dendrophila 1850 Rchb.f.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths densiflora 1896 (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths fasciculata 1896 (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths guentheri 1929 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths minutiflora 1842 Hoffmanns.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths modestiflora 1925 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths octomeriiformis 1854 Rchb.f.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths osmosperma 1896 (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths stenoglossa 1956 Pabst
Add+ Specklinia Spe citrina 2004 (Schltr.) Luer
Add+ Stelis Ste fasciculiflora 1871 Regel
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths obovata 1842 (Lindl.) Lindl.
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia dendrophila 1891 (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia obovata 1891 (Lindl.) Kuntze
Add+ Specklinia Spe obovata 1839 Lindl.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Anat. obovata 'Bryon Kelly Rinke' (2012) Pths. obovata 'Stalky' (1989) Pths. angustilabia 'Lisa' (1985)
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