Brachionidium parvum

Description

Found in The Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 500 to 1100 meters as a 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.