Dimerandra buenaventurae (Kraenzl.) Siegerist 1986
Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Siegerist
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Common Name The Buenaventura Dimerandra [A City in western Colombia]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Magdalena, Norte de Santander, Santander, Tolima and Valle de Cauca, departments of Colombia in tropical dry forests at elevations of 900 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a suberect to arcuate base, somewhat flexuous, pseudobulbous stem carrying alternate, linear-lanceolate, obtuse to somewhat unequally bilobed apex leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a fasciculate, successive, short, few flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, acute floral bracts.
Separated by the lip free from the column and the callus without a central row of imbricating lamellae.
Synonyms *Telipogon buenaventurae Kraenzl. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 33: 35 Kraenzl. 1920 as Telipogon beunaventurae
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30: 205 Siegerist 1986 Drawing fide
AOS Bulletin Vol 56 # 4 1987 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal 2014 drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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