Brachtia cochlearis H.R.Sweet 1974

TYPE Drawing Photo/drawing by © Sweet and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Ear-Like Brachtia

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to close set, compressed, ancipitous, linear-oblong pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly oblong-elliptic, obliquely obtuse, conduplicate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, single bract above the middle, loosely racemose above, few flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia 9: 12 Sweet 1974 photo/drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide

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