Bletia reflexa Lindl. 1836
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EARLY
Common Name The Back Bent Bletia
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama on rocky or grassy hillsides in oak or oak-pine forests at elevations of 1200 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with small pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, plicate, folded, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, long, acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a basal, 3 1/2' [105 cm] long, 2 to 12 flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying long-lived flowers
Synonyms Bletia jucunda Linden '&' Rchb. f. 1855
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as B jucunda; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Orchid Digest Vol 24 #7 1960 photo fide; Orquedias Michoacanas Lapiner; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Hamer 1974; Orchids of Panama L O Williams 1980; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater etal 2005 as B jucunda photo fide; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater etal 2005 photo fide; Orchids of Tropical America an introduction and guide Meisel 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #4 2015 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as B jucunda; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
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