Bletia mixtecana Gerardo A. Salazar, César Chávez-Rendón, Alejandro de Ávila B. & Rolando Jiménez- Machorro 2016 Photos by © Gerardo A. Salazar

LATE THROUGH MID

Common Name The Mixteca Bletia [A region of Oaxaca stae of Mexico]

Flower Size

Found in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca state of Mexico on gypsum in banks along ravines and on steep slopes at elevations of 1350 to 1750 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with epigeous, ovoid, slightly compressed laterally, when young completely concealed by sheaths, when old naked, green with reddish-brown nodes, smooth, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 7 to 8, deciduous, not present at flowering, plicate, green, articulate to the sheaths that conceal the pseudobulb, linear to ensiform or the lowermost one sometimes lanceolate, long-acuminate at apex, truncate and channelled at base, 9-veined leaves that blooms in the late fall through mid spring on 1 to 2, erect, close to basal, to 9.2" [23 cm] long, peduncle, slender, terte, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, 4 to 5 bracted, rachis, lax to 4" [10 cm] long, successively 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Phytotaxa 275 (2): 112–126 Gerardo A. Salazar, César Chávez-Rendón, Alejandro de Ávila B. & Rolando Jiménez-Machorro 2016 drawing/photos fide

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