Capanemia superflua (Rchb. f.) Garay 1967
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Common Name The Rich-Blooming Capanemia
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil southward to northern Argentina on lichen and mossy, thin, tree trunks and twigs at elevations around 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with small, elongate, attenuate, clustered pseudobulbs covered with papery bracts carrying a single, apical, cylindrical, acute, fleshy, sulcate and channeled above leaves that blooms in the fall on a suberect to pendulous, densely few to many flowered, 1 5/8" to 2 3/4" [4 to 7 cm] long inflorescence carrying minute flowers.
Synonyms Capanemia juergensiana Schltr. 1918; *Oncidium superfluum Rchb. f. 1864; Rodriguezia anomala Rolfe 1891; Rodriguezia juergensiana Kraenzl. 1899
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium superfluum; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 photo good; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996 drawing/photo fide; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo hmm; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #4 2011 Photo fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espiritu Santo Brasil Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide; A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #11 2019 photo fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 as Capanemia juergensii photo fide
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