!Codonorchis lessonii Lindl. 1840
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EARLY
Common Name Lesson's Codonorchis
Flower Size
Found in Argentina, the Falkland Islands and Southern Chile at elevations around 20 to 1900 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4 leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, slender, single flowered flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Calopogon lessonii (d'Urv.) Brongn. 1834; Codonorchis poeppigii Lindl. 1840; Codonorchis skottsbergii Kraenzl. 1910; Codonorchis tetraphylla (Poepp. & Endl.) L.O.Williams1938; Epipactis lessonii d'Urv. 1826; Pogonia lessonii (d'Urv.) Rchb.f. 1865; Pogonia lessonii var. poeppigii (Lindl.) Reiche 1910; Pogonia lessonii var. skottsbergii (Kraenzl.) Reiche 1910; Pogonia tetraphylla Poepp. & Endl 1837
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1863 as Pogonia lessonii; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006
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