Zootrophion fritzwalteri Vierling 2020
Photos/TYPE Drawing by Gerhard Vierling © and Die Orchidee, Taxon. Mitt. 6(18): 157 Vierling 2020
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning Fritz and Walter's Zootrophion [Fritz Markert and Walter Zimmermann German orchid Enthusiasts current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm] long
A plant of unknown origin as a miniature to small sized, presumed epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 6, loose, funnel shaped sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, leathery, broadly elliptic, acute, apically spiked, keeled beneath, tridentate apically narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on a slender, short, to .3" [7. 5 mm] long, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence with loose, papery, obliquely truncate, almost as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Zootrophion fritzwalteri is similar to Zootrophion dayanum , but differs by the ovary, which is .16" [4 mm] in length versus .24" [6 mm] in length by Z. dayanum, by the some-what larger acutely pointed and narrower lip, which is denticulate on the margins and on the underside of the apex, as opposed to the obtuse and wider (only on the margins) denticulated lip of Z. dayanum, and by the three-sided, pyramidical shaped callus of the lip by Z. fritzwalteri, as opposed to the conicel shaped callus by Z. dayanum." Vierling 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Die Orchidee, Taxon. Mitt. 6(18): 157 Vierling 2020 drawing/photo fide;
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