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Schiedeella confusa is an orchid species identified by (Garay) Espejo & López-Ferr. in 1997. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Sotoa confusa.
ORIGIN: Found in Big Bend National Park Texas, Coahuila, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Puebla, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí states of Mexico and the Distrito Federal in semi-arid regions, including seasonally dry pine-oak and juniper-oak forest, tropical deciduous forest, various types of xerophilous scrub, and wastelands and induced pastures at elevations around 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with small tubers giving rise to a basal rosette of a few lanceolate to linear leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer without leaves on an erect, 10 to 20 [25 to 50 cm] long, racemose, several flowered inflorescence carrying up to 15, sessile flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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