Crossoglossa harlingii Ormerod 2013

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod redrawn by K Winkiewicz

Common Name Harlings Crossoglossum [Norwegian Botanist in Ecuador current]

Flower Size

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador in montane rainforests at elevations around 750 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect stem carrying 10, obovate to oblong-oblanceolate obtuse, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle 2.32 to 2.48" [5.8 to 6.2 cm] long, with one to 2, lanceolate, acute sheathing bracts, rachis to 5.2 to 14.8" [13 to 37 cm] long, sublaxy to densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with the upper three tepals green and the lower brown with brownish green margins.

Similar to Crossoglossa chocoensis but differs in the thick, fleshy lobules of the lip callus. Szlach & Kolan 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 44 Ormerod 2013

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:41 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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