Solenidiopsis flavobrunnea Senghas 1989 Photo By © Wolfgang Renner

Part shadeCold LATERSpring

Common Name The Yellow Brown Solenidiopsis

Flower Size .4" [1.4 cm]

Found in Peru in cold cloud forests at elevations around 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with broadly elliptic, complanate, furrowed pseudobulbs enveloped below by several deciduous, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single oblong-elliptic, attenuate to conduplicate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms int he later spring on a basal, erect, racemose, 3" [7.5 cm] long, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers

CAUTION I am not sure of this determination, does not match the only reference that I have and it appears to be an Epidendrum

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 187 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing not

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