Gomphichis traceyae Rolfe 1916 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

Collection sheet and Drawing Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Tracey's Gomphichis [Mrs Tracy, original collector of species 1900's]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in paramo around 3500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal, rosulate, oblong-obovate, acute to abruptly acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, enveloped almost completely by chlorophyll-bearing sheaths grading smaller above, to 20" [50 cm] long, cylindric, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, concave, acute, sparsely pubescent floral bracts.

Synonyms Gomphichis brachystachys Schltr. 1920; Gomphichis montana L.O.Williams 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 52 Schlechter1920 as G brachystachys; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: 56 Schlechter 1929 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 as G montana drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225 [1] Orchidaceae Garay 1979; 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 as G brachystachys; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing good/photo

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