Bletia antillana M.A.Diaz & Sosa 1997
Photo by © Norfipc and The Fotos de La Naturaleza Website
Photo by © Robert Husted
MID 
Common Name The Antillies Bletia
Flower Size
Found in Cuba on river banks, streams or in flooded zones often with the pseudobulbs often standing in the water as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with pseduobulbs carrying 2 to 3, lanceolate, bright green, plicate leaves that blooms in the mid spring through early fall on a terminal, erect, racemose, 8 to 14" [20 to 35 cm] long, successively 1 to 5, to 10 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceeae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #9 2010 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antillies Ackerman 2014
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