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Chysis bruennowiana

(Chysis bruennowiana)

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Description

C. bruennowiana is a medium-sized plant, epiphytic (grows on trunks and branches of trees), characterized by a rhizome creeping leading pseudobulbs pendants, shaped like a barrel, wrapped basally from sheaths and carriers leaves distichous, oblong-lanceolate, thin plicate, deciduous. It blooms in spring and summer with a ' inflorescence in racemic short, arched by a pendulous, up to 20 cm long, bearing many flowers. These are large on average 3 cm, waxy, whose colors vary from orange to pink.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Liliopsida
Order:Asparagales
Family:Orchidaceae
Genus:Chysis
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