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Orchid Species: Physurus brachyceras

Kew currently accepted name is Goodyera striata

Physurus brachyceras is an orchid species identified by A.Rich. & Galeotti in 1845. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Goodyera striata.
Genus
Physurus (Physurus.)
Grex
brachyceras
Parents
Species
Author
A.Rich. & Galeotti
Year
1845
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ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic on steep slopes in cloud forests at elevations of 1350 to 1500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a thick, glabrous, leafy stem carrying several, dark green, carinate, velvety, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves with a longitudinal white stripe that blooms in the fall on an erect, thin, densely pubescent, 7 [17.5 cm] long, narrowly cylindric, to 20 flowered inflorescence with 5 tightly fitting, acuminate bracts and lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent floral bracts.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [2.5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Goodyera G striata 1845 Rchb.f.
Add+ Goodyera G brachyceras 1998 (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Garay & G.A.Romero
Add+ Epipactis Epcts striata 1908 (Rchb.f.) A.A.Eaton
Most awarded/recent cultivars: G. striata 'Accents Dottie's Delight' (1985)
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