Brachystele rosilloana R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2013

TYPE Drawing by ©Roberto Ganzales Tamayo and Ibugana 5: 62 R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2013

Common Name Rosillo's Brachystele [Salvador Rosillo de Velasco Mexican orchid enthusiast current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in open woods and pine/oak forests at elevations around 1850 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing, inconspicuous terrestrial with usually one sometimes to 3, pendent, rounded to cuneate, oblong-fusiform tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying leaves that are not present at blooming, occuring in the spring on an erect, peduncle 8 to 8.8" [20 to 22 cm] long, filiform, greenish white, provided with several tight, imbricate basally, apex shortly free, acuminate, transluscent, sheathing bracts, rachis 1.4 to 4.4" [3.5 to 11 cm] long, glabrous, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with deltoid-ovate, acuminate, somewhat longer to twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers that face in all directions, white, simultaneous, very pretty scentless flowers.

"The specimens of B rosilloana have an erect hypochile, collateral to the spine, labellum erect, cordate at the base, with the mammiliform submarginal processes; instead Schiedeella affinis has a slightly arcuate hypochile, the labellum descending with the epichilus extended, the labellum base rounded, subtruncated, the mammiliform processes originate a little later." R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2013

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 5: 62 R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2013 drawing fide

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