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Orchid Species: Galeottia acuminata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Galeottia acuminata is an orchid species identified by (C.Schweinf.) Dressler & Christenson in 1989.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte and terrestrial in wet montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 1850 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte and terrestrial in wet montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 1850 meters with cylindric, tapered, longitudinally ridged pseudobulbs subtended by imbricating, non-foliaceous sheaths and carrying 2, plicate, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate leaves that have a channelled petiole and blooms on a laxly, lateral-arching, 12 1/2 [32 cm] long, racemose, few [4 to 6] flowered inflorescence that arises on a newly developing pseudobulb with fleshy, glossy, showy flowers and large inflated floral bracts occurring in the winter in nature.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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