Brachtia brevis Kraenzl. 1920

Side View insitu Putumayo Colombia

Fallen tree insitu Putumayo Colombia Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence Photo by © Andreas Philipp

Common Name The Short Lipped Brachtia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 2800 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a pseudobulb carrying a single leaf and blooms in the summer with several axillary, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, successive several flowered, complanate inflorescence with imbricating, acuminate, conduplicate floral bracts that are much longer than the ovary.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 Escobar 1990 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing ok; Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo;

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