Sievekingia dunstervilleorum Foldats 1968 Drawing © by Foldats

Common Name The Dunsterville's Sievekingia

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Bolivar Venezuela at elevations around 110 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, mnarrowly lanceolate, acute, attenuate below into the canaliculate, petioalte base leaf that blooms on a subcorymbous, subpendent, curving,to 2" [5 cm] long, peduncle with 1 to 2 ovate bracts to 6 flowered inflorescence.

S dunstervilleorum differs from S jenmanii in the shorter ovate pseudobulbs, the wider tepals, differnt lip shape and an unwinged column

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI

* Acta Bot. Venez. 3: 399 Foldats 1968 as S dunstervillebrum drawing fide

Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Quarta parte Foldats 1970 drawing fide;

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