Galeandra styllomisantha (Vell.) Hoehne 1952 Photo courtesy of Tom Bell-Games

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Common Name The Stylus-Like Galeandra [refers to the pencil or stylis-like shape of the leaves and plant]

Flower Size 3/4" [18 mm]

Found in Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guinana, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia as a small to medium sized, terrestrial on slopes of depleted soil at elevations around 700 meters with subterranean, onion-shaped corms with 6 nodes and concealed by brown, scarious, tubular sheaths, an erect stem which is enveloped by tubular sheaths and leaf bases with 3, unarticulated, grass like, sublate leaves subtended by progressively larger sheaths that blooms on a apical, short, laxly few flowered inflorescence, with the apical end fractiflex, which is shorter than the leaf and arises on a mature pseudobulb carrying 2 to 3, resupinate, campanulate, pinkish flowers occuring mostly in the winter in nature and summer in cultivation but possible at most any time.

Synonyms Galeandra juncea Lindl. 1840; *Orchis styllomisantha Vell. 1831; Phaius rosellus Lem. 1847; Tupacamaria juncea (Lindl.) Archila, Revista Guatemal. 15(2): 30 (2012

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