Brachycorythis paucifolia Summerh. 1947 publ. 1948

Photo by © Richard Mollard

LATER EARLIER

Common Name The Few Leaved Brachycorythis

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast in high elevations savannahs at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, glabrous sublaxly, few leaved stems carrying 8 to 12, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, apiculate leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, densely 8 to 12 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute to acuminate, lower ones equal to the flowers, decreasing above floral bracts

"Most closely allied to B angolensis as both sapecies have a comparitively small number of leaves but main leaves, however, although rather long, are borne in the centre of the stem." Summerhayes

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 2: 123 Summerhayes 1947 publ. 1948; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;

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