Brachystele guayanensis (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920 Drawing by Alfred Cogniaux courtesy of Botanicus Website

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Common Name The Guayana Brachystele [Refers to northern South America]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia and northern Brazil in open meadows at elevations of 250 to 1320 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with thick, glabrous roots giving rise to a slnder stem carrying few fugaceosu leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, cylindrical, congested, many flowered inflorescence enveloped by various, tubular, acuminate bracts.

Synonyms Brachystele aguacatensis (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1920; Brachystele brenesii (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920; *Goodyera guayanensis Lindl. 1840; Gyrostachys hostmannii (Rchb.f. ex Griseb.) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes aguacatensis Rchb.f. 1855; Spiranthes brenesii Schltr. 1912; Spiranthes guayanensis (Lindl.) Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes hostmannii Rchb.f. ex Griseb. 1864

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing ok; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes guayanensis drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1003 Hamer & Dodson 1984 drawing fide;

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