Aspidogyne lindleyana (Cogn.) Garay 1977

Inflorescence Photos by © Prof. JOSE ANTONIO RADINS © and his Flora de Missiones website

Drawing Drawing by © von Martius, Eichler, Urban © and Wikimedia website

LATE EARLY

Common Name Lindley's Aspidogyne [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 1/8" [4 mm]

Found in Brazil and Argentina as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a leafy stem carrying, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the flower floral bracts

Synonyms Erythrodes lindleyana (Cogn.) Ames 1922; Physurus lindleyanus Cogn. 1895; Physurus lindmanii Kraenzl.1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35 Schlechter1925 as Physurus lindmanii; Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII Ames 1922 as Erythrodes lindleyana; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lindmanii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Iconographia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Physurus lindleyanus; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes lindleyana drawing ok;

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