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Brachionidium dussii is an orchid species identified by Cogn. in I.Urban in 1910. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Brachionidium parvum.
ORIGIN: Found in The Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 500 to 1100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an ascending to erect, occasionally branching rhizome with 1 to 2 mucronate sheaths giving rise to suberect to erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 similar sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, 7 veined, narrowing into the cuneate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a slender, erect, 1/2 to .87 [1.2 to 2.3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract near the middle and arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, as well as an inflated, long mucronate, floral bract that envelopes the pedicel and ovary and carrying a non-resupinate light greenish to purple flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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