TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Garay 1978

Common Name The Ecuadorian Buchtienia

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Napo and Pastaza provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a giant sized, warm growing terrestrial with 3 to 5, basal, subdistichous, elliptic, acute to abruptly acuminate, basally abruptly contracted into an elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 24" [60 cm] long, rachis to 16" [40 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate, greenish, glabrous flowers

Synonyms Buchtienia boliviensis var. ecuadorensis (Garay) Szlach. 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 234 Garay 1978 Drawing fide;

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37: 209 Szlach. 1992 as Buchtienia boliviensis var. ecuadorensis

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 176 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as B boliviensis var ecuadorensis drawing fide

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