Buchtienia boliviensis Schltr. 1929
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Common Name or Meaning The Bolivian Buchtienia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in very wet cloud forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short, ascending stem carrying in a basal rossete, elliptic, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, axillary, to 16" [65 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with imbricate, basal, lanceolate bracts and linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying numerous, non-resupinate flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 197; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 genus only
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