Galeandra claesii Cogn. 1893

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Common Name

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6 cm]

Found in Brazil as a small sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte with elongate, spindle-shaped pseudobulbs envelopd partially buy leaf bearing sheaths carrying numerous, eventually deciduous, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer on a pendulous, 9" [22 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the pseudobulb.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

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