!Isabelia virginalis Barb. Rodr. 1877

Flower closeup Photos courtesy of ROMAN MARUSKA and his Orchid Species Website.

Plant, Flower And Woven Basket Photo courtesy of Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website

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Common Name The Virgin Isabella Orchhid

Flower Size 1/4" [1 cm]

An Eastern Brazilian, small sized, creeping, epiphytic, cool to hot growing species growing in debris filled crevices on eroded sandstone outccroppings with a basket-like weave of fibers covering the clustered, ovoid-globose psudeobulb with a single, apical, erect, needle like, curved and flexuous, blunt leaf, that is best mounted on tree fern slabs so that it will bloom on a short, terminal inflorescence with a spathaceous bract, that has 1 or 2 waxy, long-lived, Cattleya-like flowers occuring in the late fall an winter.