Bletia stenophylla Schltr.1919
Photo by © Karl Senghas
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Slim Leaved Bletia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador on sandstone and rarely granite outcrops at elevations around 250 to 1900 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with subterranean pseudobulbs giving rise to fasciculate, few, erect, linear, elongate-acuminate, narrowing below into the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on an erect, graceful, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, successively, laxly few to several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 42 Venezuela Schlechter 1919;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 9 1967;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide/photo hmm;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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