Brachystele szlachetkoana R.Gonzalez & Lizb.Hern. 2013

Drawing by © e Xochitl Marisol Cuevas Figueroa and Ibugana 5: 56 R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2013

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Common Name Szlachetko's Brachystele [Polish Botanist current]

Flower Size

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in tropical deciduous forest, ravine edge, among rocks at elevations around 1700 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, terrestrial with roots and leaves not known, that blooms in the later spring on an erect, peduncle 11" [44 cm] long, thin, provided with withered, imbricated in the part lower, adpressed, attenuated, acuminate, gradually decreasing in size, straw-colored, with reddish-brown veins, rachis straw colored, 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, semi-cylindrical, densely 40 flowered inflorescence with much longer than the ovary floral bracts.

"Brachystele szlachetkoana is a remarkable new species, quite distinct from the others known for its floral bracts that exceed the dark brown ovaries in length and contract sharply above the middle; the labellum has five or seven veins flanked by reddish lines; a reddish-brown, triangular, obtuse column with the viscidium exceeding the rounded, oblong, sharp, pollinia." R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2013

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 5: 56 R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2013

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