Brachionidium kirbyi Bogarín, Karremans & M.Muñoz 2015
TYPE Photos/Drawing by © Karremans & M.Muñoz and Brachionidium kirbyi, a new species honoring the founder of the "Bosque de Paz" Orchid Project in Costa Rica ResearchGate Website
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Common Name Kirby's Brachionidium [American coFounder of the Bosque Paz Project current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Alajuela province of Costa Rica at elevations of 1300 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect to suberect, relatively stout rhizome enveloped completely by 3 to 5, mucronate, infundibuliform, papyraceous sheaths, giving rise at intervals, perpendicular to the rhizome, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 mucronate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, subcoriaceous, elliptical, acute, smooth, flat, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, erect to suberect peduncle, to 1" [2.5 cm] long overall, single flowered inflorescence with an inflated, acute, mucronate, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Most similar to Brachionidium dressleri but differs in the erect plants to 5.6" [14 cm] tall, often branching, greenish yellow flowers with a purple-pinkish blotch at the base of the dorsal sepal, the entire sepals, petals that are not reflexed and the triangular lip." Bogarín, Karremans & M.Muñoz 2015
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orchidee (Hamburg) 66: 405 Bogarín, Karremans & M.Muñoz 2015 Brachionidium kirbyi, a new species honoring the founder of the "Bosque de Paz" Orchid Project in Costa Rica ResearchGate WebsitePhoto/drawing fide
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