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Orchid Species: Hexalectris grandiflora
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Hexalectris grandiflora is an orchid species identified by (A.Rich. & Galeotti) L.O.Williams in 1944.
ORIGIN: Found in west Texas, Chiihuahua, Jalisco, Michoacan, Puebla, Oaxaca, Guererro, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Coahuila and Tamaulipas states of Mexico on hillsides, meadows, open woodlands and pastures often in rich soils of oak and pine-oak forests at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with succulent, reddish to brownish purple stems carrying 5 widely spaced bracts that blooms in the late spring through late summer on a racemose, to 8 [20 cm] long, few to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 to 1.4 inches [3 to 3.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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