Beloglottis mexicana Garay & Hamer 1981

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EARLY

Common Name The Mexican Beloglottis

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with basal, elliptic, subacuminate, gradually narrowing below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous below, pubescent above, somewhat purple, to 8.4" to [21 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence enveloped by a few inflated, bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 [Garay] Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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