Quisqueya ekmanii Dod 1979 Photo by Eladio Fernandez

Common Name Ekman's Quisqueya [Swedish Botanist in Dominican Republic early 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on limestone cliffsides at elevations around 1800 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with erect stems enveloped by 3 to 4 scarious sheaths carrying 1 to 4, apical, erect, slightly leathery, serrate margined, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, ternminal, 12" [30 cm] long, to 8 simultaneously flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 drawing; Orchidaceae Antillinae Nir 2000; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 4 Withner 1996

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