Zygosepalum angustilabium (C. Schweinf.) Garay 1973 Photos courtesy of G.C.K. Dunsterville Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Part shadeCool ColdFall

Common Name The Narrow Lipped Zygosepalum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Venezuela often on tepuis at elevations of 1900 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with elliptical to ellitical-cylindric, compressed, slightly ribbed pseudobulbs subtended by 1 or 2 non foliaceous leaf sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptical, plicate, conduplicate at the long petiolate base, leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with acuminate bracts

Synonyms *Zygosepalum tatei var. angustilabium C. Schweinf. 1951

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 8 1979 photo; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

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