Beloglottis mexicana Garay & Hamer 1981
Photo by © Gustavo Anceps and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Gustavo Anceps and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
EARLY
Common Name The Mexican Beloglottis
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with thick fleshy roots giving rise to basal, elliptic, subacuminate, gradually narrowing below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous below, pubescent above, somewhat purple, provided with a few inflated sheathing bracts, to 8.4" to [21 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with externally pubescent, a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3: 58 Hamer 1981
*Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3: 59 Hamer 1981drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10: 35-6 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide ;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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