Reichenbachanthus reflexus (Lindl.) Brade 1935 Photo courtesy of Gustavo Coral

Plant in situ Alto de la Serra Do Moji Dos Cruzes, Sao Paulo State Brazil 150 meters in Elevation Photo Courtesy Of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Reflexed Reichenbachianthus

Flower Size 1/8" [.6 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil in tropical wet forests at elevations of 220 to 1900 meters as a medium sized, erect then pendant growing, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a single, pointed, terete, elongate leaf and stem carrying a short single flowered inflorescence with the flower held close to the juncture of stem and leaf arising in the fall through spring.

Synonyms Fractiunguis brasiliensis Schltr. 1922; Fractiunguis reflexa (Lindl.) Schltr. 1922; Hexisea reflexa (Lindl.) Rchb. f. ex Griseb. 1864; Hexisea reflexa Rchb.f. 1877; Reichenbachanthus emarginatus Garay 1972; Reichenbachanthus modestus Barb. Rodr. 1882; Scaphyglottis brasiliensis (Schltr.) Dressler 2004; Scaphyglottis emarginata (Garay) Dressler 2004; *Scaphyglottis reflexa Lindl. 1839

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Hexisea reflexa; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 277 Dodson 1980; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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