Saundersia paniculata Brade 1941
Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista
Common Name The Paniculate Saundersia
Flower Size
Found in Espirito Santo and Rio de Janiero states of Brasil in wet cool montane forests as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a stem completely enveloped by tight, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, narrowly oval to lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed below into the conduplicate, elongate, petiole-like base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, pendant, 3" [7.5 cm] long, several flowered, slightly fractiflex inflorescence arising on a newly matured stem and holding the flowers in an apical cluster and each has a pilose ovary and sepals
Synonyms Saundersia bicallosa Ruschi 1955
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Odontoglossum/Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #11 2011 photo fide;
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