Goodyera striata Rchb.f. 1845
Photo by © the Associacion Mexicano de Orquideas
Drawing by © Hamer
Common Name The Lined Goodyera
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic? on steep slopes in cloud forests at elevations of 1350 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a thick, glabrous, leafy stem carrying several, dark green, carinate, velvety, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves with a longitudinal white stripe that blooms in the fall on an erect, thin, densely pubescent, 7" [17.5 cm] long, narrowly cylindric, to 20 flowered inflorescence with 5 tightly fitting, acuminate bracts and lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent floral bracts.
Synonyms Epipactis striata (Rchb.f.) A.A.Eaton 1908; Goodyera brachyceras (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Garay & G.A.Romero 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 753 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing ok; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 3 #1 61 Garay & Romero 1998 as G brachyceras; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Mexico, Hagsater, Soto, Salazar etal 2005 as G brachyceras; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar etal 2005; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orchid Genera and Speceis in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo good;
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