Neokoehleria neudeckeri Königer 1997 Drawing by © Koniger and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Neudecker's Neokoehleria [German Original collector of species]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Bolivia at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with small, somewhat cylindric pseudobulbs enveloped by 2 to 3, large lang-acuminate, scarious sheathsw and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, rigid, shortly conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms on an axillary pendulous, racemose, peduncle to 3.2" [8 cm] long and the rachis 4 4" [10 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescence with inconspicuous, thin, narrow floral bracts and carrying gently fragrant, non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Comparettia neudeckeri (Königer) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2008; Scelochilus neudeckeri (Königer) Königer 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Arcula 7: 208. 1997 Koniger drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 #12 2008 as Comparettia neudeckeri

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