Brachionidium dressleri Luer 1995
Flower and Plant in situ Photos by © Kresly Pineda and The Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE DrawingDrawing by © Dalstroem and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name or MeaningDressler's Brachionidium [American Botanist in Costa Rica current]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in eastern Costa Rica and western Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 2200 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial in loose moss with a stout, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 2 to 4, pale, mucronate, tubular sheaths and giving rise to stout, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, similar sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, 11 to 15 veined, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on a slender, erect, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, with a bract near the middle and an inflated, acute, mucronate floral bract
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Luer 1995 drawing fide; Manual De Plantas de Costa Rica Volumen III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;
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