Beloglottis boliviensis Schltr. 1920 Drawing by © Vasquez & Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Bolivian Beloglottis

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Bolivia in subtropical wet montane forests as a small sized epiphyte or terrestrial with basal, rosulate, elliptic, acute, elongate canaliculate below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, glabrous, 7.2" [18 cm] long, rachis dust covered, many flowered inflorescence with bract-like sheaths and glabrous floral bracts that are half as long as the flower

"Very similar to Beloglottis costaricensis but the flower shape separatres it. In B biliviebse the lateral sepals are straight . The lip is oblong-lanceolate, narrowing in the anterior half and at the base with 2, obliquely projecting linear horns that are somewhat thickened at the inner edge." Schlechter 1920 ed

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References

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 365 Schlechter 1920

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 506 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing fide

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