Brachionidium renzii Luer 1996

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Renz' Brachionidium [Swiss Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in Guyana on mount Roraima in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphtye with a stout, erect rhizome enveloped by 2, imbricating, ribbed, apiculate sheaths and giving rise to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2 mucronate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, apiculate, 7 veined, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with a bract below the middle, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a long-mucronate, shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying a yellow, non-resupinate flower.

"Related to Brachionidium juliani but differs in the much larger habit and flowers. the lip is twice braoder with a minutely denticulate margin, the lip of B julianii has a double, denticulate margin and is much narrower. In habit B renzii resembles Brachionidium folsomii but the lip of the latter is geniculate with a deflexed base and incurved lateral angles." Luer 1995

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Systematics of Brachionidium Luer 1995 drawing fide;

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