Galeandra bicarinata

G. A. Romero & P. M. Brown

N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 6: 78, fig. 1. 2000.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 644. Mentioned on page 643.

Plants apparently saprophytic, leafless at anthesis, to 60 cm. Roots numerous, white, thick, fleshy. Stems abbreviated rhizomes; pseudobulbs subterranean, cormlike, ovoid, covered with scales. Leaves: petiole to 15 cm; blade 3-ribbed, linearlanceolate, 25 × 3 cm. Inflorescences borne after leafy shoot, sometimes branched, to 20-flowered, 100 cm, base with several small, imbricating bracts; peduncle purple, with several leaflike bracts to 7 cm; rachis green; floral bracts to 2 cm. Flowers resupinate, light green; sepals spreading, oblanceolate, keeled, to 2.4 × 0.7 cm; petals spreading, oblanceolate, slightly oblique, 2 × 0.7 cm; lip subquadrangular, slightly 3-lobate at apex when spread, 2 × 2.5 cm, base produced into nearly cylindric, slightly hooked, short, obtuse spur, margins crenate, covered with short trichomes, apex reflexed; disc with a narrow callus, covered with short trichomes, bicarinate, keels merging toward base, diverging toward apex; column erect, slightly arcuate, 3-angled, to 1 × 0.3 cm, with prominent foot; anther green, cucullate, acute, the margins and apex papillose, 2 × 0.3 cm; pollinaria with no discernible viscidium or stipe; pollinia 2, yellow, spheric, 1 × 1 mm; pedicellate ovary to 2.5 cm. Capsules pendent, ellipsoid, 3 cm.


Phenology: Flowering fall.
Habitat: Hammocks
Elevation: 0–100[–1500] m

Discussion

Galeandra bicarinata was previously identified as G. beyrichii Reichenbach f., a similar species with four pronounced keels on the lip.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Galeandra bicarinata"
self-pollination +
acute +  and cucullate +
papillose +
0.3 +  and 2.5 +
Gustavo A. Romero-González +
G. A. Romero & P. M. Brown +
indehiscent +
not +  and articulate +
conduplicate +  and plicate +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (?) +
flattened +, triangular +  and cylindric +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
ellipsoid +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
0cm +  and 1cm +
3-angled +
0cm +  and 0.3cm +
2[-4]-keeled +
Fla. +  and West Indies (Cuba) +
0–100[–1500] m +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
3-merous +, sessile +  and pedicellate +
light green +
Hammocks +
branched +  and 20-flowered +
lateral +  and terminal +
100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br /> (?) +
not articulate +
duplicate +, convolute +, whorled +, opposite +, distichous +  and alternate +
cauline +  and basal +
1 (?) +  and 2 (?) +
reduced +
simple +  and sessile +
3-lobate +  and subquadrangular +
larger +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
papillose +
differing in form and color +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
1-many-flowered +  and cymose +
pendent +  and erect +
oblanceolate +
membranaceous +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (?) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
Flowering fall. +
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. +
abbreviated +
aerial +  and subterranean +
minute +
free +, distinct +, adnate +  and connate +
keeled +  and oblanceolate +
membranaceous +
not +  and alike +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
conspicuous +
obtuse +, hooked +  and cylindric +
branched +, or +  and simple +
pendent +  and erect +
proliferous +
reedlike +
thickened +  and stout +
concave +  and convex +
Galeandra bicarinata +
Galeandra +
species +
annual +  and perennial +
aquatic +, lithophytic +, terrestrial +  and epiphytic +