Chytroglossa paulensis Edwall 1903
Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Sao Paulo Chytroglossa
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with close set, small pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, erect, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on often more than one, fractiflex, erect, shorter than to equal to the length of the leaves, to 2.8" [7 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence with cordate, triangular, acute, minutely denticulate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 drawing good; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995
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