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Calanthe calanthoides (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Hamer & Garay 1974 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Ghiesbreghtia

Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.

Another Flower

Photo by Carl Withner.

Drawing

Drawing by R Jimenez and Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 538 Hagsater, Soto 2002

Common Name The Calanthe-Like Calanthe

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial in cold shady habitats in montane and lower montane forests at elevations of 1750 to 2600 meters with light green corms enveloped by sheaths of the leaves and foliaceous bracts with oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate, plicate, prominently veined leaves and is conduplicate at the base into a conspicuous petiole that blooms in the winter again in the summer and again in the fall on a terminal, 2'4" [70 cm] long, erect, many flowered inflorescence that is as long or longer than the leaves and subtended by conspicuous, acute to acuminate bracts.

The plant turns blue if damaged or bruised.

Synonyms Alismorkis granatensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891 ; Alismorkis mexicana (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Calanthe cubensis Linden & Rchb.f 1856; Calanthe granatensis Rchb.f. 1856; Calanthe mexicana A Rich & Gale. ex Rchb.f 1844; Calanthe mexicana Rchb.f. 1845; Calanthe mexicana var. lanceolata Correll 1947 publ. 1948; Calanthe mexicana var. retusa Correll 1947 publ. 1948; *Ghiesbreghtia calanthoides A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Ghiesbreghtia mexicana A. Rich. & Galeotti ex Rchb. f. 1856; Ghiesbreghtia mexicana (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1923;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;

Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 28 A Rich & Galeotti 1845 as Gheisbrechtiana calanthoides;

Linnaea 18: 406 Rchb.f 1845 as Calanthe mexicana;

Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as C mexicana;

Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as C mexicana drawing fide;

Bonplandia Rchb.f 4: 322 1856 as C cubensis;

Bonplandia Rchb.f 4: 322 1856 as C granatensis;

Bonplandia Rchb.f 4: 322 1856 as C mexicana;

Bonplandia Rchb.f 4: 322 1856 as Ghiesbreghtia calanthoides;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 650 Kuntze 1891 as Alismorkis cubensis;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 650 Kuntze 1891 as Alismorkis granatensis;