Brachystele subfiliformis (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920
Photos by © Jacques Klein and his Orquideas do Rio Grande Do Sul Website
Drawing by © Hoehne
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Common Name The Almost Filiform Brachystele
Flower Size .26" [6.5 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial to lithophyte in sandy, dry soils with an erect stem enveloped by delicate, membranaceous, thin, clear green, leaf-like, acuminate, pilose above, glabrous on the inside sheaths that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, rachis .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with long-lanceolate, long-acuminate, much longer than the flowers floral bracts.
Easily reconizable by the shape of the lip and the distinctive spherical papillae on the outer surface
Synonyms Brachystele bicrinita Szlach. 1996;' *Spiranthes subfiliformis Cogn. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Bras. 3(6): 544 Cogniaux 1906 as Spiranthes subfiliformis
Fl. Bras. 3(6): Tab 109 fig 3 Cogniaux 1906 as Spiranthes subfiliformis drawing fide
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 374 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 301 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 164 fig 2 Hoehne 1945 drawing good;
Iconographia de Orchidaceas do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 849 Szlach 1996 as Brachystele bicrinita
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