Prosthechea itabirinhensis (Campacci) J.M.H.Shaw 2014
Photos By © Reginaldo de Vasconcelos Leitao/Marcos Campacci
Photo By © Reginaldo Soval
TYPE Drawing By © Marcos Campacci
Common Name The Itabirinha Prosthechea [a city of Minas Gerais]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on high rock outcrppings [inselberg] at elevations around 1245 meters as a small sized, cool growing lithophye with fusiform, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by evanescent sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, apical, subcoriaceous, elliptic-oblong, leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, arising through a spathe, erect, racemose, to 245" [60 cm] long, simultaneously 10 to 12, many flowered inflorescence and carrying non-resupinate flowers
Similar to Prosthechea caetensis but P itabirinha is a smaller plant with a longer rhizome and inflorescence, smaller, fusiform pseudobulbs, smaller flowers with a shiny white, shorter lip witha narrower, smaller callus, spathulate petals and a narrower, differnt gymnostemium." Capacci 2009
Synonyms *Anacheilium itabirinhense Campacci 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Coletanea de Orquideas Brasilieras Novas Especias 7 Campacci etal 2009 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Rev. 122(1305, Suppl.): 17 (2014 as Prosthechea itabirinha
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