Eurystyles crocodilus Szlach. 1994

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko and Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 16: 103 Szlach 1994

LATE EARLY

Common NameThe Crocodile Head Lip Eurystyles

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with 4, in a basal rosette, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acute, minutely ciliate on the margins, sessile to subsessile base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a .64" [1.6 cm] long, dense, more or less ovate, set on very delicate, densely glandular axis, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate on margins floral bracts and carrying small, erect, tubular flowers

"Eurystyles crocodilus seems to be related toEurystyles actinosophila andEurystyles ananassocomus, but it differs from both in the lip form and gynostemium structure. The basal lip auricles of E. crocodilus are intermediate in size between E. actinosophila, in which they are large, and E. ananassocomos which has none. All of these species are autogamous. Both E. actinosophila and E. ananassocomos have long, linear and membraneous staminodes, while in E. crocodilus the staminodes are completely reduced." Szlach 1994

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 16: 103 Szlach 1994 drawing fide

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