Bletia stenophylla Schltr.1919
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Awiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Slim Leaved Bletia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador on sandstone and rarely granite outcrops at elevations around 250 to 1900 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with subterranean pseudobulbs giving rise to fasciculate, few, erect, linear, elongate-acuminate, narrowing below into the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on an erect, graceful, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, successively, laxly few to several flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten I Venezuela Schlechter 1919; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 9 1967; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide/photo hmm
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