Sarcoglottis schwackei (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

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Common Name Schwacke's Sarcoglottis [German Mining Engineer and Orchid Collector in Brasil 1800's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Brasil as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by lanceolate, inflated, acute bracts that blooms on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, several flowered inflroescence with broadly lanceolate, acute, as long as the flower floral bracts..

Synonyms *Spiranthes schwackei Cogn. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide

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