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Orchid Species: Gomesa kautskyi
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Gomesa kautskyi is an orchid species identified by (Pabst) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2009.
ORIGIN: Found in Espirito Santo state Brazil in warm humid lowlands and montane forests at elevations around 600 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm growing epiphyte with tall, slender, somewhat cylindrical pseudobulbs that are slightly widened basally and partially enveloped basally by several, imbricate, leafless sheaths and carry a single apical, narrowly elliptic, flexuous, leathery, obtuse, shortly conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a basal, arching nodding, paniculate, 3 to 5 branched, many flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3 flowers on each branch.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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