Bletia parkinsonii Hook. 1839 Drawing by Walter Hood Fitch and Curtis Botanical Magazine at Botanicus Website

Common Name Parkinson's Bletia [English Consul in Mexico early 1800's]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Vera Cruz, Colima, Guerrero, Puebla,Mexico and Chiapas in dry oak or dry scrubby tropical forests at elevations of 450 to 1950 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing deciduous terrestrial with erect to horizontal, fusiform to subconical corms giving rise to 2 to 4, plicate, absent at flowering, elliptic to widely elliptic leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to rarely 2, erect, racemose to paniculate, 7.2" [18 cm] long, 4 to 40 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Bletia altilamellata Garay 1953; Bletia anomala Rich & Gal. 1845; Bletia edwardsii Ames 1932; Bletia landsbergii Rchb.f. 1859; Bletia lankesteri (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934; Bletia mandonii Schltr. 1922; Bletia wageneri Rchb.f. 1854; Bletia wageneri var. cobra Garay & Dunst. 1976; Limodorum campanulatum (La Llave & Lex.) Ames & C. Schweinf. 1930; Limodorum lankesteri Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930; Serapias diphylla Sessé & Moç. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 533 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide;

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