Ypsilopus viridiflorus P.J.Cribb & J.Stewart 1985 Photo by JSTOR and JSTOR Plant Science Website

Common Name The Green Flowered Ypsilopus

Flower Size

Found in Tanzania in mixed evergreen forests at elevations around 1500 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying linear, tapering, bilaterally compressed, iris-like leaves that blooms in the fall on a single to several, slender, .8 to 2.4" [2 to 6 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence, unequally bilobed apically, rounded lobes, basally twisted so as to lie in one plane leaves that blooms in the fall on a below the leaves, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with broadly triangular, obtuse bracts and carrying flowers that do not open well.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 48-49 Vandeae 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 photo fide;

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