Brachionidium hirtzii Luer 1986 Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Hirtz' Brachionidium {Ecuadorian Orchid Collector current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Northern Ecuador in cloud forests in moss and humus as a terrestrial or climbing in trees at elevations of 2700 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with to 1" between ramicaul enveloped by 3 thin, loosely fitting, mucronate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical to suborbicular, subacute to obtuse, 7 to 15 veined, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a suberect, [1.7 to 2.3 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with a bract near the middle and another at the base and has an inflated, mucronate floral bract and carries 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/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Luer 1995 drawing fide;

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