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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.
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).
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