Anacheilium faresianum (Bicalho) Pabst, Moutinho & A.V. Pinto 1981 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name Fares' Anacheilium [Brazilian collector of Type Species current]

Flower Size

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meterse as a small sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with clustered, ovoid, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several imbricationg, deciduous sheaths and carrying three apical, subcoriaceous, smooth, lanceolate, cymbidiform, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, racemose, 5.6" [14 cm] long, inflorescence with to 10,successively opening, non resupinate, fragrant flowers

Synonyms Encyclia faresiana [Bicalho] Pabst; Hormidium faresianum Bicalho 1973; Prosthechea faresiana (Bicalho) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses II Castro 2006 as Prosthechea faresiana

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