Galeandra styllomisantha (Vell.) Hoehne 1952

InflorescencePhoto by © Maarten Sepp

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Common Name The Stylus-Like Galeandra [refers to the pencil or stylis-like shape of the leaves and plant]

Flower Size 3/4" [18 mm]

Found in Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guinana, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia as a small to medium sized, terrestrial on slopes of depleted soil at elevations around 700 to 1400 meters with subterranean, onion-shaped corms with concealed by brown, imbricate, scarious, tubular, acute sheaths with 6 nodes, and carrying 3, unarticulated, grass like, sublate, basally clasping leaves subtended by progressively larger sheaths that blooms on a apical, short, laxly few flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb, with the apical end fractiflex, which is shorter than the leaf and arises on a mature pseudobulb carrying 2 to 3, resupinate, campanulate, pinkish flowers occuring mostly in the winter in nature and summer in cultivation but possible at most any time.

Synonyms Galeandra juncea Lindl. 1840; *Orchis styllomisantha Vell. 1831; Phaius rosellus Lem. 1847

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 255 Bennett & Christenson 1995

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