Sherring'S Cup Orchid (Brachionidium sherringii)
Description
Found in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Grenada, St Kitt's, St Lucia and St Vincent in clayey soils on roadbanks in elfin cloud forests at elevations around 500 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a long-repent to ascending rhizome giving rise to ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 mucronate sheaths and each carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellitpical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, slender, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with a bract near the middle and inflated, long-mucronate floral bract and carries a non-resupinate flower that can be transluscent white, to yellow to dark purple.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Brachionidium
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