Chaubardia gherti (Hoehne) Garay 1969 Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Bergstrom Orchids Homepage

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Common Name Ghert's Chaubardia [Discoverer of species 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte from inland Sao Paulo state Brazil with small, compressed pseudobulbs that become sulcate with age and are enveloped basally by 2 to 3 foliaceous sheaths on both sides and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, acuminate leaf that is basally attenuate and canoe-shaped and blooms axiallarily from the foliaceous sheaths and is erect to horizontal, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Hoehneella ghertiana (Hoehne) Ruschi 1945; *Warczewiczella gehrtiana Hoehne 1937; Warczewiczella gehrtiana Hoehne ex Hoehne 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst & Dungs 1976 as Hoehneella ghertiana

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