Prosthechea fragrans (Prosthechea fragrans)
Description
Prosthechea fragrans is an orchid epiphytes native to America . It is a medium-sized orchid , with habits of epiphyte with pseudobulbs cylindrical to fusiform, narrow ovoid with basal bracts that become paper-like with age and an individual leaf, coriaceous, oblong to ligulate, narrowly elliptical-lanceolate and obtuse. It blooms especially in the winter and spring, but it is possible in all seasons with a well-grown plant, in an apical racemose inflorescence, erect, 10 cm long with 3 to 10 flowers, shorter than the leaves and emerging in a recently matured pseudobulb subtended by a large basal bract and very fragrant (with the smell of honey and vanilla)
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Prosthechea
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