Brachionidium brevicaudatum Rolfe 1896
Photo by © Dunsterville
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Postage stamp by Venezuela
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Common Name or Meaning The Short Tailed Brachionidium
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Venezuela and Guyana on tepuis at elevations around 1000 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a stout, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 2, imbricating, mucronate, tubular sheaths and giving rise to slender, erect to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, mucronate, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, apiculate, 7 veined, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on a slender, erect, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, with a thin bract near the middle and another at the base and has a mucronate floral bract and carrying a non-resupinate flower
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Venezuelan Orchids Dunsterville 1987 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Luer 1995 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 20(2): 67–216. Ossenbach & Jenny 2020 collection sheet fide
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