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Orchid Species: Stenoptera acuta
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stenoptera acuta is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1840.
ORIGIN: Found in northern Brazil and Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 3000 to 3650 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 10, basal, oblanceolate-ligulate to broadly oblanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the broad petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a stout, terminal, erect, to 3' 4 [1 meter] long, glabrous below, sometimes sparingly pubescent above, rachis elongate-cylindric, tomentose, to 12 [30 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, smooth or ciliate on the margins floral bracts that are as long to slightly longer than the flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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