Govenia plowmanii Szlach. & Kolan. 2014 TYPE Drawing by © Nowak, Szachetko & Kolanowska and Two New Species of Govenia

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Common Name Plowman's Govenia [American Co discover of species 1900's]

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in Huila department of Colombia in secondary forests at elevations around 1400 to 1500 meters as a large sized[ in bloom], cool growing terrestrial with corm-like pseudobulbs surrounded by leaf sheaths carrying 2, subopposite, oblong-elliptic, acute, strongly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and later summer on an erect, peduncle to 26.4" [66 cm] long, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying rather small flowers with a unique lip structure which separates it from all others.

Similar to G fasciata but differs in the lip that is centrally concave, constricted in the apical third, with the basal part obreniform and the apical part much smaller and transversly elliptic.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Polish Botanical Journal 59(1): 7–10, Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2014 drawing fide

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