Accession Data

Specklinia brighamii

Family: Orchidaceae

Country of Origin: S. Mexico to Ecuador, Caribbean

Description: A miniature, caespitose, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species found in lower rain forests at elevations of 300 to 800 meters with stems carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, bright lustrous green, obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms successively on a apical, short to 3" [7.5 cm], single flowered inflorescence that is close to the length of the leaf, mostly in the summer.3

Accession Data

Accession #: 199100266

Accession Date: 1991-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3213

Quantity: 2

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: monocots

Order: Asparagales

Family: Orchidaceae

SubFamily: Epidendroideae

Tribe: Epidendreae

SubTribe: Pleurothallidinae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, 24 December, 2018.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Monday, 24 December, 2018.
  3. Pleurothallis brighamii at Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia. Last accessed on Monday, 24 December, 2018.

Images

Specklinia brighamii
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