Prostheshea caetensis [Bicalho] Higgins 1997

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Common Name The Caete Prosthechea [A town In Minas Gerais Brazil]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais and Bahia states of Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte on tree trunks or occasional lithophyte, with suborbicular, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to three, apical leaves that blooms on a several to many [12 to 18] flowered inflorescence with fleshy flowers.

Synonyms Anacheilium caetense [Bicalho] Pabst, Mouitinho & Pinto 1981; Encyclia caetensis (Bicalho) Pabst ?; *Hormidium caetense Bicalho 1973;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bol. Soc. Campineira Orq. 2(4): 26 Bicalho 1972 as Hormidium caetense;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Epidendrum caetensis; Bradea 3: 183 Pabst, Moutinho & A.V.Pinto 1981 as Anacheilium caetense;

*Phytologia 82: 377 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;

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