Sutrina garayi Senghas 1993 Photo by © Hans Gerhardt Seeger

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Common Name Garay's Sutrina [American Orchid Taxomonist current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Bolivia at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with closely spaced, slender, laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally rugose, ridged pseudobulbs enveloped partially by several, close fitting sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to arching, narrowly oval to lanceolate, narrowing to the acute apex and narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on an axillary, from an upper basal sheath, to 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying close set flowers that face in all directions.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006

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