Eurystyles ochyrana (Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk.) F.Barros & L.R.S.Guim. 2010

TYPE Drawing by © Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Ochyra's Eurystyles [Polish Botanist current]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, pendent epiphyte with a basal rosette of lanceolate, narrow, acute, thin, delicate, glabrous, margin glabrous leaves that blooms on a pendent .4" [1 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate, thin delicate floral bracts and carrying glabrous, non-resupinate flowers.

"The new species is related to E splendissima from which it differs in several evident features. In particular, the lip of P. ochyrana is devoid of the large central red thickening characteristic of P. splendissima. Additionally, it is abruptly widened just above the base, there is a constriction between the hypochile and epichile, the petals are falcate in the upper half, the lateral sepals are straight and the leaves are not ciliate. The viscidium of P. ochyrana is about twice as long as that of P. splendissima." Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk. 2001

Synonyms *Pseudoeurystyles ochyrana Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Polish Bot. J. 46: 131 Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk. 2001 as Pseudoeurystyles ochyrana drawing fide;

* Neodiversity 5: 31 F.Barros & L.R.S.Guim 2010

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