Hapalorchis longirostris Schltr. 1920

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Deep Shade

Common Name The Long Beaked Hapalorchis

Flower Size

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia as a miniature sized terrestrial with fasciculate, fleshy, pilose roots giving rise to an erect stem carrying about 6, basal, spreading, ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate, glabrous, sub-hastacordate, canaliculate, thinly petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, straight, terete, 4 to 5 minutely puberulous, sheathed, rachis short, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-diaphonous, slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying thin, glabrous, non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 64 Colombia Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: 75 Figuren Atlas Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;

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