Buchtienia boliviensis Schltr. 1929
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Drawing by © Szlachetko 2019
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Common Name or Meaning The Bolivian Buchtienia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in very wet, dense cloud forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short, ascending stem carrying in a basal rossete, elliptic, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, axillary, to 16" [65 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with imbricate, basal, lanceolate bracts and linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying numerous, non-resupinate flowers.
"Easily distinguished by its large size, basal leaves up to 20" [50 cm] long, and multiflowered raceme up to 16" [40 cm] long with numerous relatively small flowers." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 27: 34 Schlechter 1929
Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 16: 2. C Schweinfurth 1953
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 128 Schweinfurth 1958;
Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 genus only;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 174 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
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