Notylia venezuelana Schltr.1919
Photo by Ecuagenera Orchid Species Website
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter
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Common Name The Venezuelan Notylia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Venezuela as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to approximate, oblong, compressed, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-ligulate, obtuse, narrowing into the base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a decurved, shortly pedunculate, 5.2" [13 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts
Often cited as a synonym of N bungerothii but differs mostly in the downcurved petals. N bungerothii has petals that are horizontal.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten I Venezuela Schlechter 1919; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Syn of N bungerothii not = N fragrans; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as N bungerothii; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = N fragrans; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo ok; LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 TYPE drawing fide
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