Cypripedium conzattianum R.González & Lizb.Hern. 2010 SECTION Irapeana

TYPE Drawing

Photo by e R. Soltero Q./TYPE Drawing by © Jorge Roberto González Tamayo and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 18 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Part shade Cool LATERSummer

Common Name Conzatti's Habenaria [Casiano Conzatti Mexican author of Flora Taxonomica Mexicana current]

Flower Size

Found in Colima state of Mexico in tropical deciduous forest with palms, in calcareous soil, at 1,100 meters as a robust, large sized, cool growing, caespitose terrestrial with a very short, enveloped by sheaths, dark brown, smooth rhizome giving rise to a cylindrical, green, glabrous in the part covered by the leaf sheaths, obtuse stem carrying numerous, reduced to cuculated bracts, the bracts adpressed to the stem, obtuse, pubescent, developing lamina above, ascending, acuminate, densely pubescent on both sides, the trichomes multicellular, acuminate, translucent; rounded blade, ovate to lanceolate, more or less attenuated, acuminate, 1.68 to 4.56" [4.2 to 11.5 cm] long, 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4] cm wide leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, successively 1 to occasionally 2, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with rigid, with the margin revolute, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, up to 2.4" [6 cm] long, 1.32" [3.3 cm] wide, green, densely pubescent on both sides, the acuminate trichomes, smaller than those of the floral parts, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

" Cypripedium luzmarianum distinguishs itself from C. conzattianum by the branched rhizome, so the plants are clustered; the flowers are creamy yellow; the dorsal sepal with three carinas; the shallow, oblong-elliptical convex petals; The lip has two inconspicuous shoulders at the base, lacks atria a centimeter away, the trichomes inside are botuliform; a cordiform-ovate staminodium, .56" [14 mm] long, .36" [9 mm] wide and the stigma is obpyriform, and .2" [5 mm] long." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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