Brachionidium ecuadorense Garay 1956Drawing by © Dalstroem and The Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Ecuadorian Brachionidium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2800 to 3400 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte on wet rocks with a slender, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 2 to 3, close, acuminate sheaths and giving rise to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, 7 veined, narrowly elliptical, acute, apiculate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, with a bract near the middle and an infundibular, mucronate floral bract

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Luer 1995 drawing fide;

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