Warrea

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Read about Warrea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Warrea (named for Frederick Warre, who discovered the first species in Brazil). Orchidaceae. Plants with the habit of small forms of Phaius. Lvs. few, long, plicate: scape tall, bracted, bearing a raceme of terminal showy fls.: sepals and petals subequal, concave, the lateral sepals united with the base of the column; labellum not spurred, united with the base of the column, undivided, concave, with longitudinal ridges; column without appendages; pollinia 4, with a narrow stipe. —Two species, Peru and Colombia. They require the same treatment as phaius.

W. cyanea, Lindl.-Aganisia cyanea.


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