Gomphichis schneideri Szlach., S.Nowak & Paluch. 2013

TYPE Drawing © by Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Common Name Schneider's Gomphichis [Collector of the type]

Flower Size

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia in paramo at elevations around 3600 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 4, basal, rosulate, lanceolate, acute, sessile leaves with 4 cauline sheaths above in the winter on a terminal, erect, axis glandular, peduncle to 8.8" [22 cm] long, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, almost glabrous, twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying smallflowers with externally glandular sepals.

"Unusual in the genus for its oblong-ligulate lip with pubescent margins and oblong-falcate, obtuse petals with pubescent outer margins." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Bot. Fenn. 50: 319 Szlach., S.Nowak & Paluch. 2013 drawing

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 81 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

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