Brachystele bracteosa (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920

drawing by © Miss Drake and Edward's Botanical Register

Common Name The Bracteate Brachystele

Flower Size

Found in Rio Grande Do Sul and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with numerous, basal, rosulate, oblong-subspathulate, acute, longly attenuate into the short, pseudo-petiolate base leaves that blooms on a short, thin, enveloped by imbricate, pubescent sheaths, to 8" [20 cm] long overall, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, foliaceous, much longer than the flowers, erect patent floral bracts and carrying small flowers that are held almost horizontally.

Closely related to Brachystele dilatata but differs in the larger flowers in a loose raceme, by the largfe sheathing bracts of the stem and the very long floral bracts.

Synonyms Gyrostachys bracteosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Neottia bracteosa (Lindl.) Steud. 1841; *Spiranthes bracteosa Lindl. 1837

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 23: t. 1934 Lindley 1837 as Spiranthes bracteosa

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 23: t. 1934 Lindley 1837 as Spiranthes bracteosa drawing fide

Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 189 Steud. 1841 as Neottia bracteosa

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys bracteosa

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 372 Schlechter 1920

Flora Brasilensis Vol 3 Pt 4: 205 Cogniaux 1893

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 303 Hoehne 1945;

Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

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