Bletia purpurea explained

Bletia purpurea, common name pine-pink or sharp-petaled bletia, is a species of orchid widespread across much of Latin America and the West Indies, and also found in Florida.^[1] They are terrestrial in swamps or sometimes found growing on logs or stumps above the high tide mark.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Bletia purpurea can reach a length of 180 cm (5 feet). It has ovoid (egg-shaped) pseudobulbs up to 4 cm (1.6 inches) in diameter. Leaves are linear or narrowly elliptic, up to 100 cm (40 inches) long. Flowers are pink, purple, or occasionally white, in racemes or panicles sometimes with as many as 80 flowers. Sepals are smaller than those of B. patula, usually less than 30mm long.^{[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]}

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=22583 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101429 Flora of North America v 26 p 602.
3. Dodson, C.H. & P.M. Dodson. 1980. Orchids of Ecuador. Icones Plantarum Tropicarum 1: 1–100.
4. CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico D.F.
5. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2451325#page/103/mode/1up Ames, O. & D. S. Correll. 1953. Orchids of Guatemala. Fieldiana, Bot. 26(2): 399–727.
6. Carnevali F., G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Jiménez-Machorro, L. Sánchez-Saldaña, L. Ibarra-González, I. M. Ramírez & M. P. Gómez. 2001. Notes on the flora of the Yucatan Peninsula II: a synopsis of the orchid flora of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula and a tentative checklist of the Orchidaceae of the Yucatan Peninsula biotic province. Harvard Papers in Botany 5(2): 383–466.
7. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40576061#page/3/mode/1up Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584.
8. http://www.amazilia.net/images/Plants/Orchids/Bletia_purpurea.htm Amazilia, pine-pink
9. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10404448#page/129/mode/1up Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 9(1): 97–98. 1841.
10. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/721950#page/522/mode/1up Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 3(2): 515. 1791.
11. Dodson, C. H. and P. M. Dodson. 1980. Bletia purpurea. Icones Plantarum Tropicarum 1: plate 7.
12. McLeish, I., N. R. Pearce & B. R. Adams. 1995. Native Orchids of Belize. 1–278.
13. Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States Monocotyledons 1–712. The University of Georgia Press, Athens.
14. Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.