Chloraea crispa Lindl.1840 Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name The Curled Chloraea

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Found in central Chile at elevations of sea level to 300 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute to subacute leaves, a stem enveloped by membraneous sheaths that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, densely few flowered inflorescence with papery, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary bracts and carrying showy, white, not opening well flowers.

Synonyms Asarca conspicua Kuntze 1891; Asarca crispa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Asarca cygnaea (Phil.) Kuntze 1891; Asarca spectabilis Phil. 1858; Chloraea cygnaea Phil 1864;. Chloraea semibarbata subsp. spectabilis (Phil.) Kraenzl. 1904;Chloraea spectabilis (Phil.) Phil. 1864

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 drawing ok;

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