Jacquiniella cernua (Lindl.) Dressler 1966

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Fundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATER MID

Common Name The Nodding Jacquinella

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] long

Found in central and southwestern Mexico in humid pine-oak forests often in ravines and along streams at elevations of 1900 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or rarely lithophyte with terete somewhat succulent, semi-erect, erect to arcuate stems enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying 3 to 6, distichous, in the upper 3/4's of the stem, terete, very fleshy, laterally somewhat compressed, rounded leaves that blooms in the later winter through mid spring on a terminal, sessile, single flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3, conduplicate, imbricate, triangular-lanceolate, obtuse bracts and triangular-lanceolate, acute, hyaline floral bracts and carrying an open to semi-open, fleshy, yellow to orangish flower becoming orange with age.

Synonyms Briegeria cernua (Lindl.) Senghas 1980; Epidendrum karwinskii Rchb.f. 1856; *Isochilus cernuus Lindl. 1842

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Dressleriaella cernua; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 593 Lopez Rojas 2002 drawing fide;

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