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[[File:Pleurothallis_tridentata.jpg|thumb|Pleurothallis tridentata]]

'''Code:''' PTHS.0x0002

'''Common Name:''' The Three Toothed Pleurothallis<br />
'''Scented:''' no<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' deep shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' hot to cool<br />
'''Bloom:''' spring, summer and autumn<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 3mm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Acronia tridentata'' (Klotzsch) Luer 2005; ''Humboldtia tridentata'' (Klotzsch) Kuntze 1891; ''Pleurothallis ionantha'' Rchb.f. 1850; ''Pleurothallis nephrocardia'' Schltr. 1919; ''Zosterophyllanthos ionanthus'' (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Marg. 2001; ''Zosterophyllanthos nephrocardius'' (Schltr.) Szlach. & Marg. 2001; ''Zosterophyllanthos tridentatus'' (Klotzsch) Szlach. & Marg. 2001

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 400 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect to ascending ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a fascile of single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, rounded, shallowly cordate, sessile leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and autumn on a short 1mm to 2mm long, successively single flowered inflorescence subtended by a spathe and carrying a non-resupinate flower.