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Gavilea lutea
Gavilea lutea
Yellow Orchid
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0423 0591 (2023-04-11)

Copyright © 2023 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Dec 11, 2012
  • location   roadside, Ruta Y-150, near footbridge to Hotel Pehoe on Isla Notros in Lago Pehoe, Torres de Paine Nat'l Park, (Chile)
  • family Orchidaceae
  • plant community   in colluvial gravels at base of steep cliff, with intermittent moisture from bedding plane seeps in north facing sedimentary shale cliff above road
  • notes   unusual occurrence of a beautiful species more commonly found in moist, shady, Valdivian temperate forest communities and, in the park, shaded Nothofagus(beech) forests rather than Andean scrubland
  • contributor's ID #  SA 500
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Yellow Orchid (photographer)
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