Bletia reflexa Lindl. 1836
Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz and the Atlanta Botanical Garden ©
Flower in situ central Mexico Photos courtesy of Eduoard Faria.
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EARLY
Common Name The Back Bent Bletia
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama on rocky or grassy hillsides in oak or oak-pine forests at elevations of 1200 to 2500 meters with small pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, plicate, folded, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, long, acuminate leaves where it blooms in the fall and winter on a basal, 3 1/2' [105 cm] long, 2 to 12 flowered racemose inflorescence with long-lived flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as B jucunda; Orquedias Michoacanas Lapiner; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Hamer 1974
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