Arethusa rosea (Lindl.) Benth. ex Hemsl. 1884
Photo by Weyman Bussey Another Flower
by Edoard Faria
Drawing from Edwards Botanical Register and the Botanicus Website
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Common Name The Pink Arethusa
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Hinduras and Nicaragua in wet oak-pine forests on protected cliffs at elevations of 1100 to 2100 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a partially submerged, suborbicular corm giving rise to 1 to 2, apical, lanceolate, acute, plicate leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, slender, erect, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, few to several [3 to 6] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb with basal sheaths.
Synonyms Arethusa grandiflora S.Watson 1891; Arethusa tigridiifolia Lex. in P.de La Llave & J.M.de Lexarza 1825; Bletia purpurata Rich. & Gal. 1845; Bletia rosea (Lindl.) Dressler 1964; *Crybe rosea Lindl. 1836;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Crybe rosea; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orquedias de El Salvador Hamer 1974 as B purpurata drawing/photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Crybe rosea photo fide; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 617 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as Bletia purpurata drawing fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Bletia rosea drawing fide; The Orchids of Guatemala and Belize; Ames and Correl 1985; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Bl;etia purpurata drawing fide; Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 534 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Bletia purpurata drawing fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Bletia purpurata photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 as Bletia rosea drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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