Hagsatera brachycolumna (L.O. Williams) R. González 1974 Photo courtesy of David Hunt

Common Name The Short-Columned Hagsatera

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Mexico as a creeping, medium to large sized epiphyte with narrowly conical-fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, suberect-arcuate, coriaceous, linear, obtuse leaf that gives rise to an axillary, racemose, 3/4 to 7/8" [2 to 2.2 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence that arises on a newly forming pseudobulb with triangular, acute bracts and subcampanulate, nutant flowers

Synonyms Encyclia brachycolumna [L.O.Wms.] Dressler 1961; *Epidendrum brachycolumnum L.O. Williams 1942