Fernandezia ionanthera [Rchb.f & Wars.] Schlechter 1920 SECTION Nasonia Photo by © Lourens Grobler and The Wikia Website

Another Angle Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Plant and flowerPhoto by Dale Borders

Plant and Flower in situ, Cundinamarca Colombia 6/22/07Photo by © Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Violet Column Fernandezia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature sized, cold growing, pseudomonopodial epiphyte or occassional lithophyte in wet, cold, cloud forests at elevations of 2500 to 3300 meters with a leafy, branching stem with ovate-lanceolate, acute, shallowly concave, conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves with a sessile, axillary from the topmost leaf axils, single flowered inflorescence with minute floral bracts that occurs in the fall through spring.

Synonyms Centropetalum ionantherum [Rchb.f $ Warsc.] Kraenzl., Pflanzer 1923; *Nasonia ionanthera Rchb.f & Warsc. 1855

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 99.1854 as Nasonia ionanthera; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Nasonia ionanthera drawing; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 432 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0073 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995 drawing/photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 12 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 661 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;

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