Galeottia burkei (Rchb.f.) Dressler & Christenson 1988 publ. 1989 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista photo by © Libor Janowsky and Orchidstudium

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Common Name Burke's Galeottia [English Orchid Collector for Veitch nursuries 1800's]

Flower Size 1.8 to 2" [4.5 to 5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam?, N Brazil and Peru in humid grasslands at elevations around 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome carrying clustered, oblong, laterally compressed, obtuse tetragon pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, coriaceous, linear-lanceolte, acuminate, 5 nerved, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms on an axillary, 14 to 16" [35 to 40 cm] long, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Mendoncella burkei (Rchb.f.) Garay 1973; *Zygopetalum burkei Rchb.f., 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 5 1991 as Mendocella burkei Photo;