Barbosella crassifolia
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Barbosella crassifolia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Orchidaceae |
Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
Tribe: | Epidendreae |
Subtribe: | Pleurothallidinae |
Genus: | Barbosella |
Species: | B. crassifolia |
Binomial name | |
Barbosella crassifolia (Edwall) Schltr. (1918) | |
Synonyms | |
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Barbosella crassifolia is a species of orchid.
Location
Found in southern and eastern Brazil in dense primary forests at an elevation of 950 to 1500 meters.
Characteristics
Barbosella crassifolia is a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, mat forming epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by a thin, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, prostrate, thickly coriaceous, suborbicular to elliptical, entire apically, obtuse rounded, rounded and contracted below into the nearly absent petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, erect, 0.6 to 1.12" [1.5 to .8 cm] long, single flowered inflorscence with a minute bract below the middle and an oblique floral bract.
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