Barbosella dolichorhiza Schltr.1920 SUBGENUS Barbosella
Photo by © Franco Pupulin and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Photo by © Moises Behar
Drawings by © Carl Luer Common Name or Meaning The Long Rooted Barbosella
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 950 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growingcaespitose to shortly repent epiphyte with short, cylindrical ramicauls enveloped basally by pale sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-ligulate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the canaliculate, narrowly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a singular, erect, thin, 4.4" [11 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a cucullate-ovate, acuminate, enveloping the pedicel floral bract.
"Between the large B cucullata and the small B prorepens and approaching both species when close to their prospective sizes making identification a matter of personal judgement. Typically B dolichorhiza is shortly repent to caespitose, often forming dense masses with peduncles 2 to 3 times longer than the narrow leaves. Except for the size difference all 3 species concepts are similar. The sepals of B dolichorhiza are between .6 and 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, and those of B prorepens betweem .24 to .52" [6 to 15 cm] long, and those of B cucullata exceed 1" [2.5 cm] sometimes even exceeding 1.6" [4 cm]. In all three concepts the flowers range from yellow to brown to purple." Luer 2000
Synonyms Barbosella anaristella (Kraenzl.) Garay 1974; Barbosella bradeorum Schltr. 1923; Barbosella fuscata Garay 1969; Masdevallia anaristella Kraenzl. 1921; Pleurothallis anaristella (Kraenzl.) L.O.Williams 1950; Pleurothallis bradeorum (Schltr.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934; Triaristellina anaristella (Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 111. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as B bradeorum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 200. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as B bradeorum; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 1 1961 as B anaristella photo fide; Orquideología 4(3): 153 Garay 1969; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 606 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as B anaristella drawing ok; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as B anaristella drawing good; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 as B fuscata drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 Drawing fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photos fide; Orchids of Tropical America an introduction and guide Meisel 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 as B fuscata drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as barbosella anaristella
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