Psychilis monensis Sauleda 1988 Photo by © Wilfredo Falcon and Peurto Rican Nature Flickr Site

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Common Name The Mona Island Psychilis

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Puerto Rico on Mona Island in bright light on small trees and shrubs in dry coastal forests at elevations near sea level as a small sized [out of bloom], hot growing epiphyte with cylindrical to pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3, rigid, coriaceous, linear leaves that blooms mostly in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, stiff, 4'2" to [1.2 meters] long, successively many flowered inflorescence enveloped partially by tightly clasping, tubular, scarious sheaths and has clustered flowers and an inflorescence that can reproduce another head of flowers over several years

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Orchid Flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume 4 Withner 1996 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide;

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