Prosthechea marciliana (Campacci) W.E.Higgins 2009
Photo/TYPE Drawing courtesy of Marcos Campacci
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Common Name or Meaning Marcilio's Prosthechea [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Mato Grosso do Sul state of Brazil in bright, swampy forests at elevations of 300 to 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovate, laterally compressed pseduobulbs enveloped by deciduous sheaths and carrying a siongle, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, shorter than the leaf, racemose, 4" [10 cm] long, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with inconspicuous floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers
Synonyms Anacheilium marcilianum Campacci 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasilieras Novas Especias 5 Campacci 2007 drawing/photo fide;
Selbyana 29: 214 W E Higgins 2009
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