Quisqueya holdridgei Dod 1979
TYPE Photo by Dod
Photo by Eladio Fernandez
Drawing by Ms Robles
Common Name Holdridge's Quisqueya [Botanist in Dominican Republic early 1900's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in pine forests in narrow gullies cut by erosion on low branches of pine at elevations around 1400 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphtye with erect stems enveloped by 3 to 4 scarious sheaths carrying 1 to 3, apical, erect, slightly leathery, serrate margined, ligulate-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 10.8" [27 cm] long, 1 to 3 simultaneously flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 drawing fide;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 4 Withner 1996; Orchidaceae Antillinae Nir 2000;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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