Buchtienia rosea Garay 1978

TYPE Drawing by © Garay

Common Name The Rose Buchtienia [refers to the flower color]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cusco department of Peru as a giant sized, terrestrial with fasciculated, fleshy, villous roots giving rise to 2, robust, broadly elliptic, subacute to obtuse, subcordate-cuneate below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle to [85 cm] long, provided with several sheathing bracts, rachis to [35 cm] long, ccylindrical, multiflowered inflorescence with linear-lanceoalte, narrowly acuminate, decreasing in size upwards, 2 to 3 times longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pink- rose colored, fleshy flowers with the sepals externally sparsely pubescent.

Synonyms Buchtienia boliviensis var. rosea (Garay) Szlach. 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as B boliviensis drawing fide;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 26: 23 Garay 1978

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37: 209 Szlach 1992 as Buchtienia boliviensis var. rosea

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 photo fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 177 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as B boliviensis var rosea Drawing fide

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