Hairy Cup Orchid (Brachionidium ciliolatum)
Description
Found in Puerto Rico at elevations around 1020 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a stout, occasionally branching rhizome enveloped by 2 to 3, imbricating, mucronate sheaths and giving rise to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2, mucronate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, apiculate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, with a thin bract near the middle and another at the base and has acute floral bracts and carrying a cleistogamus flower
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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