Prosthechea borsiana (Campacci) Campacci 2005
Photo/TYPE Drawing courtesy of Marcos Campacci
Common Name or Meaning Bor's Anacheilium
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru and Goias state of Brazil in bright forests in the Brazilian "cerrado" savannah at elevations around 700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a long rhizome giving rise to subglobose, laterally compressed, initially enveloped by 2 deciduous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, green, coriaceous, elliptic, narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, racemose, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, simultaneously several to many flowered inflorescence with inconspicuous floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Similar to P vespa but differs in the subglobose pseudobulbs, the shorter broader leaves, the broader sepals broader, an apiculate, entire lip apex,
Synonyms Anacheilium borsianum Campacci 2004
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bol. CAOB 56: 124 Campacci 2004 photo/drawing as Anachielium borsiana;
CAOB 57 2005 as Prosthechea borsiana;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 as Anachielium borsiana photo fide; *Phytotaxa 239: 298 Van den Berg 2015
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