Brachionidium minusculum Luer & Dressler 1995

Plant and Flower Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Very Small Brachionidium

Flower Size 3/8" [.9 cm]

Found in Costa Rica as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with a long-repent rhizome giving rise to short ramicaul enveloped by 3 shortly mucronate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse and minutely forked and apiculate at the apex, 5 veined, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms on an erect, [3.5mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with an infundibular, acute, apiculate floral bract and a translucent white resupinate flower.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XII Luer 1995 drawing ok

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