Barbosella vasquezii Luer 2000SUBGENUS Barbosella
Photos by © S Manning and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer Common Name Vasquez's Barbosella [Bolivian Orchid Collector current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia at elevations around 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose to shortly repent epiphyte with ascending to erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, thickly coriaceous, semiterete, linear to narrowly elliptic-obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a thin tubular floral bract that envelopes the pedicel.
Similar to the B prorepens group but distinguished by the pair of lamellae converging from thin, rounded, erect, margins below the middle.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide;
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