!Fernandezia subbiflora Ruiz & Pav. 1798 SECTION Fernandezia

Plant and Flowers in situ in Ecuador Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

and EARLY

Common Name The Almost Always Two Flowered Fernandezia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru as a monopodial, pendant to arcuate growing epiphyte in cool wet cloud forests at elevations of 2100 to 3100 meters with simple, erect stems that are enveloped by distichous, imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths that branch with smaller plants at the base, ovate, conduplicate, falcate-sigmoid, thick, rugose, dark green, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a lateral, axillary, subsessile single flowered inflorescence occuring in the winter and early spring.

Synonyms Centropetalum distichum Lindl. 1838; Centropetalum warscewiczii Rchb. f. 1852; Fernandezia disticha (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920; Fernandezia pulchra Schltr. 1921; Fernandezia warscewiczii (Rchb. f.) Schltr.1920; Pachyphyllum subbiflorum (Ruiz & Pav.) Schltr. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 057 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 433 Dodson 1982; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 COS 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006

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