Sievekingia dunstervilleorum Foldats 1968 Drawing © by Foldats

Common Name The Dunsterville's Sievekingia

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Bolivar Venezuela at elevations around 110 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, mnarrowly lanceolate, acute, attenuate below into the canaliculate, petioalte base leaf that blooms on a subcorymbous, subpendent, curving,to 2" [5 cm] long, peduncle with 1 to 2 ovate bracts to 6 flowered inflorescence.

S dunstervilleorum differs from S jenmanii in the shorter ovate pseudobulbs, the wider tepals, differnt lip shape and an unwinged column

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Quarta parte Foldats 1970 drawing fide;

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