!Quisqueya karstii Dod 1979

Photo by Karl Senghas

Common Name The Karst Quisqueya [grows in karst limestone]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in northeastern Dominican Republic near the tops of limestone hills at elevations around 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with flat, warty roots, and erect, slender, terete stems enveloped completely by 2 to 3 scarious sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate-lanceolate, obliquely acute, serrulate margined, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 6.4" [16 cm] long, to 5 simultaneously flowered inflorescence with several sheaths and acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #2 Photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo fide;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 4 Withner 1996 photo fide;

Orchidaceae Antillinae Nir 2000; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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