Myrmecophila gentryi Szlach & Kolan. 2023 SUBGENUS Chaunoschomburgkia

Drawing by © K Winkiewicz

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Common Name Gentry's Myremecophila [American Orchid Collector current]

Flower Size

Found in San Andres and Providencia Islands of Colombia in scrub at elevations around 300 to 310 meters as a meters as a large sized, hot growing, to 12" [to 30 cm] tall epiphyte with an elongate to 8" [20 cm] long, narrowly cylindrical, more or less sulcate, hollow pseudobulb carrying 3, apical, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, 5' 2" [1.5 meter] long, 3 to 20 flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Similar to M tibicinis but the lip is cuneate at the base, the lateral lobes arte obliquely triangular, semi-ovate, acute [vs the lateral lobes large, semiorbicular to semiobovate, semicordate basally and broadly rounded apically], the middle lobe of the lip is prominently clawed with a bilobulate apex, both lobules are flabellate and undulate [vs suborbicular-obovate to somewhat rhombic, retuse, with the margins erose curled to nearly whole]." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV: 486 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;

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