''Acianthera angustisepala'' is a species of plant in the

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family.

Distribution

It is endemic from

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. It was formerly subordinated to the genus ''Pleurothallis'' .

Description

''Acianthera angustisepala'' is found in forests at elevations of 800 to 1350 meters .

Taxonomy

It was named by Alec Melton Pridgeon, and

Mark Wayne Chase Mark Wayne Chase (born 1951) is a US-born British botanist. He is noted for work in plant classification and evolution, and one of the instigators of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-classification for flowering plants which is partly based on DNA ...

in ''Lindleyana'' 16: 247 in 2001.

References

angustisepala Taxa named by Mark Wayne Chase {{Epidendreae-stub