Crossoglossa topoensis (Mansf.) Dodson 1993 Drawing by © Dodson and Icones Plantarum Tropicarum ser. 2, 6: t. 528 Dodson 1989 as Malaxis topoensis

Common Name The Topo Crossoglossa [An area within Pastaza Ecuador]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador in wet upper montane cloud forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a caulescent, basally recumbent stem enveloped by distichous, imbricating, foliaceous leaf sheaths and carrying narrowly elliptic, acute, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 1.2" [3 cm] long, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, densely spirally arranged, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying light green flowers

Distinguished by the ovate lip that is less the .16" [4mm] long, excavated in front of the thickened ring enveloping the column without a pair of calli.

Synonyms Malaxis topoensis (Mansf.) Dodson 1989; *Microstylis topoensis Mansf. 1937;

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Biblioth. Bot. 29: 72 Mansf. 1937 as Microstylis topoensis;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum ser. 2, 6: t. 528 Dodson 1989 as Malaxis topoensis drawing fide;

*Native Ecuadorian Orchids 1: 149 Dodson 1993 Drawing fide;

Flora of Ecuador 225 [2] Orchidaceae AA - Cyrtidiorchis Dodson & Luer 2005;

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

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