Aspidogyne commelinoides (Barb.Rodr.) Garay 1977 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Common Name or Meaning The Commelina-Like Aspidogyne

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Minas Gerias Brazil as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect leafy stem carrying ellitpcial, acute, gradulaly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, 4"[10 cm] long, densely many flowered, conical inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, acute as long as the flower floral bracts

Synonyms Erythrodes commelinoides (Barb.Rodr.) Ames 1922; *Physurus commelinoides Barb.Rodr. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as Physurus commelinoides drawing ok