Baskervilla paranaensis (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920
Plant and Inflorescence in situ Parana Brazilce
Photos by © Marcos and his Orquideas, Um Universo de Cores e Formas You Tube Website
Drawing by © Tomas André Macagnan; Eric de Camargo Smidt; Cecília Oliveira de Azevedo and The Scielo Brazil Website and Rev. bras. Bot. vol.34 no.3 São Paulo July/Sept. 2011
TYPE Drawing by © Kraenzlin
Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name The Parana Baskervilla
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 4 to 6, basal, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate below into the 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 13.6 to 20" [34 to 50 cm] long, provided with 7, distant, shortly lanceolate, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, laxly multiflowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, much longer than the ovary below, becoming shorter than above the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Baskervilla janeirensis Brade 1943; * Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 43 Kraenzlin 1911 as Ponthieva paranaensis
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 320 Schlechter 1920
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 6: 10 Brade 1943 as Baskervilla janeirensis
Flora Brasilica Vol [8] XII II: 144 Hoehne 1945 ;
Flora Brasilica Vol [8] XII II: tab 81 Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257 - 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2005 drawing fide;
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