Common Name ²

The fringed galeottia

Location ²

Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru

Description ²

Medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or rarely lithophyte with clustered, ovoid, rugose pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricate, distichous, acute sheaths and carrying 2 apical, oblanceolate, plicate, acute to acuminate, petiolate leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, basal, 5 1/5" to 8 3/4" (13 to 22 cm) long inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb with rigid, lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts carrying 2 to 3, fleshy flowers.

Habitat type ²

Primary forests at elevations of 100 to 1600 meters in rain forest on tree trunks in shade.

References ²

http://www.orchidspecies.com/galefimbriatum.htm

Sources and Credits

1. (c) consci2014, all rights reserved
2. (c) consci2014, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNaturalist NZ taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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