Ibidium lucayanum Britton

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Orchidaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Ibidium lucayanum Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - Boot of cylindrie, fleshy tubers 2-5 em. long, 8-10 mm. thick. Basal leaves present at flowering time, oblong-lanceolate, oblanceolate to elliptic, thin but somewhat fleshy, spreading, 5-nerved, reticulate-veined, at least when dry, 5-17 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base into a rather slender petiole, which is one half to two thirds the length of the blade; scape slender, including the spike 2-4 dm. high, its several leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, appressed, 1-3 cm. long; spike 5-25 cm. long, about 1 em. thick, usually many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, erect, as long as the ovary or longer; flowers green, spreading; sepals linearlanceolate, acutish, 3-4.5 mm. long; petals linear a little shorter than the sepals; lip ovate-oblong, obtusish, concave, 3-5 mm. long, about one third as wide as long, with two minute callosities at the base; capsule oblong, blunt, about 5 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Coppices mil white-lands, Lignum Vltae Cay, Andros, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Long island. Watllng's, Great Exuma, Crooked Island and North Caicos : Florida; Anegada : Puerto Rico. Erroneously recorded by Cogniaux as Bpiranthee elarta. Green Ladies tresses.

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