Brachystele camporum (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920
Plant and Flowers in situ Uruguay
Photos by Andres Gonzales ©
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Campos Brachystele
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina near ponds and lakes at elevations around sea level to 100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial that has no leaves at blooming with an erect stem partially enveloped by lanceolate, acute, sheathing bracts that blooms in the spring on an erect, peduncle 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, rachis 1.6 to 3.6" [4 to 9 cm] long, conical, many flowered, inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, tenuously membraneous, subpellucid, very concave, pale green, three to seven nerved, glabrous, as long as the flower floral bracts and carrying minute, erect, patent, white to whitish flowers
Schlechter compared this species with Brachystele unilateralis but B camporum differs in the shorter, white to whitish flowers with a broader lip versus smaller flowers with a narrower lip and green with white petals in B unilateralis.
Synonyms Brachystele pappulosa Szlach. 1996; Gyrostachys camporum (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Spiranthes camporum Lindl. 1840;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 473 Lindley 1840 as Spiranthes camporum
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys camporum
Flora Brasilensis Vol 3 Pt 4: 209 Cogniaux 1893 as Spiranthes camporum
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 372 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII pt II: 304 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII pt II: tab 166 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 848 Szlach 1996 as Brachystele pappulosa
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