Pterichis proctorii Garay 1954 SECTION Pterichis

Drawing by © Mark Nir

Common Name Proctor's Pterichis [American Collector of the type]

Flower Size

Found in Jamaica on mossy banks in wet broadleavedforests at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial without leaf data, blooming in the winter on an erect, puberulent, 16" [40 cm] long, peduncle with 5 scarious, amplexicaul, acute sheaths, rachis 4,8" [12 cm] long, quaquaversally, densely several flowered inflorescence with puberulent, ovate-lanceolate, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish, nonresupinate, externally glandular-pubescent flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackeman 2014

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