''Acianthera antennata'' is a species of orchid native to

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Distribution

Its range is Southern Brazil. It is an

epiphyte An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphyt ...

that grows in warm to cool habitats .

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 2001.

References

antennata Plants described in 1953 Taxa named by Mark Wayne Chase {{Epidendreae-stub