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Orchid Species: Gomesa gravesiana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Gomesa gravesiana is an orchid species identified by (Rolfe) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2009.
ORIGIN: Endemic to Pernambuco, Bahia and Minas Gerais State in northeastern Brazil at elevations around 500 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte and is often confused with Onc endersianum but differs in producing many more flowers that occur in the early fall and by being found in Pernambuco instead of Sao Paulo and Rio. This orchid has purplish suffused with brown, compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical leaves and blooms in the early fall in situ on a basal, 12 to 18 [30 to 45 cm] long, 8 to 16 flowered inflorescence .
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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