Gomphichis adnata (Ridl.) Schltr. 1919 Photos by © Mark Whitten, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Plant in situ and Inflorescence Photos by © Francisco Morales and the Inbio Costa Rican Orchid webpage
THROUGH EARLY
Common Name The Grown Upon Gomphichis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests and on tepui summits at elevations around 1500 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a rosette of ascending, narrowly elliptic, acute, becoming conduplicate below leaves that blooms in the summer through early winter on an erect, stout, pubescent, densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped almost completely by imbricating, acuminate, triangular bracts
Synonyms Gomphichis costaricensis (Schltr.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934; Gomphichis merzii Senghas 1994; Stenoptera adnata Ridl.1887; Stenoptera costaricensis Schltr. 1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Stenoptera costaricensis; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as G costaricensis drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as G costaricensis drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as G merzii photo good; Flora of the Venzuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Flora of the Venzuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as G costaricensis; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchiideae Part 2 Vanilloideae Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 2 Hammell, Grayum, Herrera adn Zamora 2003 drawing good; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Nowak, S., Szlachetko, D.L., Mytnik-Ejsmont, J. et al. Plant Syst Evol ( 301: 61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-014-1054-4 2015; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as G costaricensis photo fide
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