Aspidogyne hylibates (Rchb.f.) Garay 1977 Photo by © Alexandre Medeiros © and Orquidario Virtual website

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Common Name The ? Aspidogyne

Flower Size 3/8" [9mm]

Found in south eastern Brazil as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying grading larger above, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 1.5" " [3.75 cm] long, several flowered inflorescnece

Synonyms Erythrodes hylibates (Rchb.f.) Garay & Pabst 1957; Erythrodes lacteola (Barb.Rodr.) Ames 1922; Physurus humilis Cogn. 1895; *Physurus hylibates Rchb.f. 1881; Physurus lacteolus Barb.Rodr. 1882;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII Ames 1922 as Erythrodes lacteola; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus humilis drawing good; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lacteolus drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus hylibates; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes hylibates drawing fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing good/photo fide

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