Brachionidium folsomii Dressler 1982
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Ron Griesbeck courtesy of Yoshi Nomura and his Not So Green Thumb Orchid Pages
Common Name Folsom's Brachionidium [American Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 450 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a sometimes branching stem carrying erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 similar, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, apiculate, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, short, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arsiing from near the apex of the ramicaul with a bract near the base and another in the middle with a non resupinate flower
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Systematics of Brachionidium Luer 1995 drawing fide
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