Bletia altilamellata Garay 1953
TYPE Drawing by © S Nowak redrawn from Garay 1953
Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso
Common Name The High Lamina Bletia
Flower Size
Found in Cauca department of Colombia and Guyana in grasslands at elevations around 1700 meters as a medium sized [in bloom], cool growing terrestrial with a rhizome consisting of a subglobose corm ging rise to a single, basal, long-petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, to 24" [60 cm] long, arising laterally from the corm, not enveloped by the leaves, sparsely branching laxly 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte-triangular, acuminate, as long as the pedicel flroal bracts and carrying rose-purple flowers.
This species has to have some affinities to B campanulata as it has been considered a synonym of that species in the past but is readily distinguished by the form of the lip middle lobe and taller more acute lamellae on the disc. Also B altilamellata has 7 lamellae and Bletia campanulata has 5.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 47: 222 Garay 1953;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing not;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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