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Acianthera aphthosa is a small epiphytic orchid from wet tropical South America, growing on tree trunks and branches. It is a niche species seldom grown as a houseplant, so care follows that of other small wet-forest pleurothallid orchids.
Acianthera aphthosa is a species of orchid. It was first described by John Lindley in 1838 as Pleurothallis aphthosa, but was assigned to the genus, Acianthera, in 2001 by Pridgeon and Mark W. Chase. It is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru.
Acianthera aberrans · Acianthera aculeata · Acianthera adamantinensis · Acianthera aechme · Acianthera agathophylla · Acianthera alainii · Acianthera albopurpurea · Acianthera amaralii · Acianthera angustifolia · Acianthera angustisepala · Acianthera antennata · Acianthera asaroides
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acianthera aphthosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
