R.
simmleri Beauverd, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 11.7: 136. 1907.
Reduced to synonymy under R.
cereuscula by Barthlott and Taylor Bradleya 13
Info from B&R 1923
- Stems pendent, cylindric, 2 to 3 mm. in diameter, very much branched,
- Branches dichotomous or 3 or 4-verticillate, upper short and somewhat
angled, quite unlike
lower ones;
- Flowers solitary, subterminal;
- Petals white with pink tips, oblong, 6 to 8 mm. long;
- Filaments 5 to 8 mm. long, white, filiform;
- Style exserted, 9 mm. long;
- Stigma-lobes ovate, reflexed, white;
- Ovary obconic, 3 to 3.5 mm. in diameter;
- Fruit white.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution: Costa Rica.
This species is named for Paul Simmler, chief gardener of the Boissier
Collections at Geneva, Switzerland. The plant was introduced in a collection
of orchids from Costa Rica and -flowered in cultivation. Dr. Rose saw
it when in Geneva in 1912 and obtained a small fragment, but he did not
see it in flower.
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