Galeandra minax Rchb.f. 1874

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

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Common Name The Uprising Galeandra [refers to the erect, thin canes?]

Flower Size 1 3/4" [4.2 cm]

Found in Venezuela to Northern Brazil as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, erect, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths that after leaf fall, dry and are persistent and carrying several, deciduous, two ranked, thin, plicate, linear, 3 nerved, basally clasping, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring on a just developed, almost mature pseudobulb that arose less than 2 months before, terminal, erect then arching, slightly fractiflex, several [8] flowered inflorescence arsing through a narrowly linear, elongate, acute spathe and carrying wide open flowers that have an very elongate, acute, spur.

Very close to Galeandra baueri but with a more trilobed lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; The Orchids Of Venezuela: An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Native Orchids of Colombia Vol 2 # 206 COS 1991; The Orchids of Puerto Rico and Virgin Isl. Castillo & Ackerman 1992; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000

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