Brachionidium jesupiae Luer 1995Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Jesup's Brachionidium [American Female Orchid Enthuisiast and discoverer of species]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador in cloud forests on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a slender, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 3 close sheaths and giving rise to slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, apiculate, 5 veined, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, erect, .44 to .55" [11 to 14 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and another at the base and a smooth floral bract and carrying a non-resupinate flower.

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

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