Goodyera striata Rchb.f. 1845 Photo by © the Associacion Mexicano de Orquideas

Common Name The Lined Goodyera

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic? on steep slopes in cloud forests at elevations of 1350 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a thick, glabrous, leafy stem carrying several, dark green, carinate, velevety, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that has a longitudinal white stripe that blooms in the fall on an erect, thin, densely pubescent, 7" [17.5 cm] long, narrowly cylindric, to 20 flowered inflorescence with 5 tightly fitting, acuminate bracts and lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 753 Hamer 1982 drawing ok;

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