
Vasqueziella boliviana Dodson 1982
Photo by Hans Gerhardt Seeger and his München-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden Orchid Website




Common Name The Bolivian Vasqueziella
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Cochabamba Bolivia in submontane wet forests at elevations around 1800 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, round to ovate pseduobulbs carrying 2 to 3, apical, plicate leaves that blooms in the summer on a basal, lateral then pendant, several to many flowered inflorescence enveloped by tubular, imbricate bracts carrying fleshy, fragrant flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 600 Dodson 1982 drawing fide
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