!Brachionidium parvifolium (Lindl.) Lindl. 1859
Photo by © Andrea Niessen
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Small Leafed Brachionidium
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil at elevations around 2400 to 2850 meters as a giant sized, cold growing epiphyte with a stem with 3 distant, smooth tubular sheaths and .8 to 3.6" [2 to 9 cm] between each erect to suberect, branching ramicaul with 2 imbricating, smooth tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, 11 to 13 veined, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, slender, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying a non-resupinate large flower.
Synonyms *Restrepia parvifolia Lindl 1846
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Luer 1995 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 1994 Dodson drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42-43 pg 2624 - 2756 Brieger 2001; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing ok; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
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