Helonoma chiropterae (Szlach.) Carnevali & G.A.Romero 2000

TYPE Drawing by Carnevali & Romero

EARLIER

Common Name The Hand-Shaped Wings Helonoma

Flower Size .05" [1 mm]

Found in Amazonas and Bolivar states of Venezuela in savannahs at elevations of 1850 to 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 9, in a basal rosette, lanceolate, acute, narrowly canaliculate into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and earlier spring on an erect, delicate, sparsely glandular all over, peduncle 4 to 11" [10 to 27.5 cm] long, rachis to 1.2" [3 cm] long, 10 to 25 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acute, thin, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying tiny, white flowers with the base of the sepals sparsely glandular.

Separated from the closely related Helonoma bifida by the different lip form, which in H bifida is somewhat longer with a ligulate apical part, with involute margins

Synonyms *Beloglottis chiropterae Szlach. 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 703 Szlach 1996 as Beloglottis chiropterae

* Orchids Venezuela, ed. 2: 1136 Carnevali & G.A.Romero 2000

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 125 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Beloglottis bifida drawing fide

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