!Hoehneella gehrtiana (Hoehne) Ruschi 1945
Plant and Flowers Photos by Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid FOundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Gehrt's Hoehneella [Discoverer of species 1900's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
A miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil at elevations of 700 to 800 meters with small, compressed pseudobulbs that become sulcate with age and are enveloped basally by 2 to 3 foliaceous sheaths on both sides and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, acuminate leaf that is basally attenuate and canoe-shaped and blooms in the summer on an axillary, from the foliaceous sheaths, erect to horizontal, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Chaubardia gehrti (Hoehne) Garay 1969; *Warczewiczella gehrtiana Hoehne 1937; Warczewiczella gehrtiana Hoehne ex Hoehne 1938
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst & Dungs 1976;Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 27 1648 - 1712 Brieger 1993 drawing/photo fide; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide
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