!Lyroglossa grisebachii (Cogn.) Schltr. 1921
Photos by Jacques Klein and his Flickr Orchid Photo Page
Photo by Lou Menzes
Drawing of Spiranthes spirata by Hoehne
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Common Name Grisebach's Lyroglossa [German Botanist in West Indies later 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam, French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia and Parana state of Brazil in open savannahs as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with rather numerous, clustered, linear-clavate tuberoids giving rise to an erect, slender, aphyllus, tomentose stem carrying only a few distant, densely villose, oblong-lanceoalte sheaths that blooms on a rather laxly, few flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, tomentose, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small, tubular, more or less arcuate flowers
Synonyms Lyroglossa bicolor Schltr. 1920; Lyroglossa euglossa (Kraenzl.) Hoehne & Schltr. 1922; Lyroglossa grisebachii var. euglossa (Kraenzl.) Szlach. 1994; Lyroglossa grisebachii var. spirata (Hoehne) Szlach. 1994; Lyroglossa spirata (Hoehne) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Spiranthes bicolor Griseb. 1864; Spiranthes euglossa Kraenzl.1915; *Spiranthes grisebachii Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes spirata Hoehne 1919; Stenorrhynchos bicolor Schltr. 1919
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Brit. W. I.: 641 Griseb. 1864 as Spiranthes bicolor sensu auct.
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 207 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes grisebachii
Ark. Bot. 14(10): 5 Kraenzlin 1915 as Spiranthes euglossa
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 53 Schlechter 1919 as Stenorrhynchos bicolor nom. superfl.
Arq. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 22: 71 Hoehne 1919 as Spiranthes spirata
Arq. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 22: 71 Hoehne 1919 as Spiranthes spirata drawing fide
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 449 Schlechter 1920 as Lyroglossa bicolor nom. superfl.
* Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(2): 27 Schlechter 1921
Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): 32 Hoehne & Schlechter 1922 as Lyroglossa euglossa
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 336 Hoehne 1945 as L euglossa
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: Tab 182 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 as L euglossa drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as L euglossa drawing fide;
Native Orchids of Trinidad And Tobago Schultes 1960;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as Spiranthes grisebachii;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 333 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Lyroglossa spirata
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide;
Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 39: 124 Szlach 1994 as Lyroglossa grisebachii var. euglossa
Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 39: 124 Szlach. 1994 as Lyroglossa grisebachii var. spirata
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 as Lyroglossa spirata;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide;
Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 224 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide
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