Govenia utriculata (Sw.) Lindl.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plant 3-7 dm. high, the stem rather stout, bearing large basal inflated bladeless sheaths and 1 or 2 broad leaves. Basal sheaths usually 2, membranous, 4-20 cm. long; leaves usually 2, elliptic, 1-2.7 dm. long, 5-9 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, finely many-nerved; cauline sheaths 1 or 2, obtuse, about 5 cm. long; raceme few-several-flowered, 1.5 dm. long or less; pedicels 3-5 mm. long; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 1-2 cm. long; flowers whitish; sepals about 1.5 cm. long, the lateral lanceolate, the median oblong; petals about as long as the sepals, lip ovate, acute, about 9 mm. long; capsules deflexed, 2.5 -3 cm. long.
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Distribution
Coppices and pine-barrens. Abaco, Andros :- Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Puerto Rico ; Jamaica ; Mexico to South America. Swollen Govenia.
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