Constantia gutfreundiana Chiron & V.P.Castro 2005
TYPE Drawing/Photo by © Vitorino P. Castro Neto and The Richardiana Website
LATER
Common Name Gutfreund's Constania [Brazilian original collector of species current]
Flower Size .2" 5mm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on shady, lichen covered, large vertical rock faces in very dry locations at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing lithophyte with rounded, rugose, decurrent with the ground pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricating sheaths in youth and carrying 2, apical, opposite, lanceolate, coriaceous, acute, cordiform leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, from the apex of the pseudobulb, .16" [4 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Richardiana 5:156 2005 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 131 Castro 2006 drawing/photo fide
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