Eurystyles rutkowskiana Szlach. 2001

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko and Polish Bot. J. 46: 63 Szlach 2001

Common Name Rutkowski's Eurystyles [Polish Botanist current]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Brazil without locational data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with 10, in a basal rosette, oblanceolate to spathulate, shortly apiculate, thin, delicate, densely and minutely ciliate along margins, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a pendent peduncle 1.28" [3.2 cm] long, pendulous, densely ciliate, with no sheathing bracts, rachis .52 to .6" [1.3 to 1.5 cm] long, very dense, capitate, to 10 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, densely ciliate along the margins, herbaceous, more than twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying tubular, erect, non-resupinate flowers.

"The new species appears to be related to !Eurystyles cotyledon, but the lip has a different shape and proportions. The lip of E. rutkowskiana is about 4 times longer than wide, shallowly constricted near the apex; the claw is short and wide; the auricles are very narrow, apiculate, widely spread; the basal part of the hypochile is narrow, ribbon-like, abruptly widened and triangular-ovate above with obtuse side lobes; the epichile is subquadrate-transversely elliptic, apiculate, densely ciliate. The lip of !Eurystyles cotyledon is about 3 times longer than wide, oblong-obovate in outline above the lip auricles, entire, with a rounded apical margin; the auricles are linear-falcate, blunt at the apex." Szlach 2001

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Polish Bot. J. 46: 63 Szlach 2001 Polish Bot. J. 46: 64 Szlach 2001drawing fide;

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