Basiphyllaea corallicola (Small) Ames 1924
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Flower Size small
Found in Florida USA, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba in thick litter of lowland, broadleafed forests and thickets at elevations of 100 to 750 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with tuberous, subterranean, ellipsoid-conical, horizontally flattened stems carrying a single, linear to narrowly elliptic leaf that blooms in the later summer through spring on a terminal, erect, sometimes branched, solitary, 7.6 to 10.4" [19 to 26 cm] long, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts and carrying often cleistogamous flowers
Synonyms Basiphyllaea angustifolia Schltr. 1925; *Carteria corallicola Small 1910;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Native Orchids Of Florida Luer 1972 Drawing/photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as B angustifolia; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2005; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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