Baskervilla paranaensis (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920
Plant and Inflorescence in situ Parana Brazilce
Photos by © Marcos and his Orquideas, Um Universo de Cores e Formas You Tube Website
Drawing by © Tomas André Macagnan; Eric de Camargo Smidt; Cecília Oliveira de Azevedo and The Scielo Brazil Website and Rev. bras. Bot. vol.34 no.3 São Paulo July/Sept. 2011
TYPE Drawing by © Kraenzlin and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Color Flower Drawing Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name The Parana Baskervilla
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 4 to 6, basal, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, laxly multiflowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, much longer than the ovary below becoming shorter than above floral bracts.
Synonyms Baskervilla janeirensis Brade 1943; *Ponthieva paranaensis Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol [8] XII II Hoehne 1945; Flora Brasilica Vol [8] XII II Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257 - 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2005 drawing fide;
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