Plectrophora cultrifolia (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1904 Photo by Dale and Deni Borders.
Flower Closeup Photos by David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©
and EARLY
Common Name The Knife-Shaped Leaf Plectrophora
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte in low tropical forests at elevations of 200-650 meters wit elliptic, complanate, ancipitous pseudobulbs subtended by a few distichous, imbricate, conduplicate sheaths with the uppermost being leafed and a single, apical, bilaterally compressed, subfalcate, tapered to an indisinct petiole, acute leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and early fall on a short to 1" [2.5 cm], axillary, sequentially single flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate, minute floral bracts and holding the flowers below the leaves.
Synonyms *Jansenia cultrifolia Barb. Rodr. 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 not = P iridifolia; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 3 1960 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 not = P iridifolia; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 not = P iridifolia; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 574 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 348 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995 drawing/photo good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide;
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