Brachionidium dalstroemii Luer 1986
Photo by © Dalstroem
Drawing by © Lorena Paola Galarza Pasquel and her Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name or Meaning Dalstroem's Brachionidium [Swedish Orchid Enthusiast and orchid illustrator extrodinaire]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2600 to 3150 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing epiphyte with a stout, erect, straight, to 40" [to 100 cm] long, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 3, loose, long mucronate, sheaths and giving rise to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, similar sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, purple beneath, coriaceous, 7 to 9 veined, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a slender, erect, .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, with 2 inflated, imbricating bracts and an inflated, mucronate floral bract
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 1994 Dodson drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Luer 1995 drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 12 2007
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