Zootrophion muliebre Vierling 2020
Photos/TYPE Drawing by Gerhard Vierling © and Die Orchidee, Taxon. Mitt. 6(18): 157 Vierling 2020
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Feminine Zootrophion [refers to the curves of the synsepal]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide
A plant of unknown origin as a miniature to small sized, presumed epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 3 to 5, loose, funnel shaped, prostrate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, leathery, elliptic to wedge-shaped, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on a slender, short, provided with 3 bracts, to .48" [12 mm] long, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence with funnel-shaped, oblique, longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Zootrophion muliebre is similar to Zootrophion leonii , but differs by the plant's features: small in size and upright by Z. leonii, horizontal to pendent and medium in size by Z. muliebre; by the differently shaped petals by Z. muliebre which are towards the end of the apex strongly twisted and bent towards the outside; and by the differently shaped lateral lobes of the lip, which are by Z. leonii narrowly falcate, as opposed to the wider and rotund lobes by Z. muliebre." Vierling 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Die Orchidee, Taxon. Mitt. 6(18): 157 Vierling 2020 drawing/photo fide;
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