Chysis addita Dressler 2000

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Common Name The Added Chysis [refers to the appendix between the column foot and the lip]

Flower Size 1.6" [4.5 cm]

Found in Chiapas state of Mexico to northwestern Guatemala at elevations around 1250 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a pendent, caespitose, clavate, long-stipitate stem carrying several elliptic, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a pendent, peduncle 4.8 to 5.2" [12 to 13 cm] long, 6" [15 cm] long overall, rachis to 1.2" [3 cm] long, 3 flowered inflorescence with ovate, concave, acute to apiculate floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Mesoamerican Orchid Novelties 3 Novon, Vol. 10, No. 3: 193(Autumn, 2000, Dressler 2000 drawing fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;

Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto etal 2005 photo fide;

* Richardiana 10(4): 172-173 Chiron 2010 drawing fide

Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 photo fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:366 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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