Promenaea acuminata Schltr. 1919 Photo by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Acuminate Promenaea

Flower Size

Found in Santa Catarina Brazil as a mini=miniature sized epiphyte with aggregate, ovoid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed pseduobulbs enveloped basally by foliaceous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect-patent, lanceolate-ligulate, acute to acuminate, dlabrous, attenuate and conduplicate below into the base that blooms on an arcuate, thin, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 3 bracts and lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, slightly longer than the pedicel floral bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of Verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 27 1648 - 1712 Brieger 1993 ;

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