Myrosmodes nervosa (Kraenzl.) Novoa, C.A.Vargas & Cisternas 2015

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Common Name The Nerved Myrosmodes

Flower Size

Found in Arequipe and Tacna departments of Peru and Arica, Parinacota, Tarapacá and Antofagasta regions of Chile in wetlands at elevations of 3100 to 4900 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial that blooms in the late winter through later spring on an erect, lateral, 1.2" [3 cm] long, covered by broad hyaline sheaths, rachis thick, conic,.56" [1.4 cm] long, to 21 flowered inflorescence with ovate to oblong, acute, margin entire, , as long as to a bit shorter than the flower floral bracts and carrying small, white hylaine with green flowqers.

Synonyms Aa nervosa (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1912; *Altensteinia nervosa Kraenzl.1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 80: 8 Kraenzlin 1905 as Altensteinia nervosa

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 150 Schlechter 1912 as Aa nervosa

Genera Orchidacearum Orchidoideae Part 2: pl 7 Vanilloideae Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2003 photo fide;

* Gayana, Bot. 72: 152 Novoa, C.A.Vargas & Cisternas 2015 photo fide;

LANKESTERIANA 16(2): 139 . Delsy Trujillo Paúl Gonzáles, Huber Trinidad & Asunción Cano 2016 The Andean Genus Myrosmodes (Orchidaceae, Cranichideae) in Peru Drawing/photo fide

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