Brachystele tamayoana Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik 2004

TYPE Drawing by © Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik and Ann. Bot. Fenn. 41: 472 Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik 2004

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Common Name Tamoyana's Brachystele [Dr. Roberto Gonzalez Tamayo (IBUG), an eminent Mexican orchidologist current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Baja California and Guanajuato states of Mexico in meadows surrounded by forests of Quercus and Pinus cembroides, occasionally in open meadows at elevations around 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a single, basal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, peduncle 6.4 to 9.6" [16 to 24 cm] long, provided with 7 to 9, tubular, acute to acuminate, tightly adnate, scarious, glabrous sheathing bracts, rachis 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, lax to sublax, 25 to 45 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, glabrous, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, inconspicuous, white flowers.

"This species is related to B. luzmariana and Schiedeella affinis . From the former it differs in having the lip twice as long as wide and with simple nervation, and in the pandurate-subquadrate hypochile, and from the latter by the lip, which is constricted above the middle and widest at the apex or in the middle of the hypochile." Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik 2004

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Bot. Fenn. 41: 472 Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik 2004 drawing fide

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