Myrosmodes chiogena (Schltr.) C.A.Vargas 1995
Photo by © P Gonzales/Drawing by D Trujillo and LANKESTERIANA 16(2). Delsy Trujillo, Paúl Gonzáles, Huber Trinidad & Asunción Cano 2016 THE ANDEAN GENUS MYROSMODES
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The White? Myrosmodes
Flower Size minute
Found in f Ancash, Lima, Junín, Huancavelica, Cusco and Puno departments of Peru and La Paz department of Bolivia on rocky hillsides with loam soil, grasslands and wetland at elevations around 3000 to 4800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with 4 to 5, radical and rosulate to fasciled, on a separate shoot, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a totally enveloped by hyaline, imbricating, loosely infundibuliform sheaths, to 1.08" [2.7 cm] long, cylindric-conic, densely many flowered inflorescence with hyaline, sub-orbicular ovate, with irregular margins and not as long as the flowers floral bracts.
"Closest to Myrosmodes paludosa but M chiogena differs in the smaller flowers, the lip with deep slits at the edges, and its shorter column with a triangular rostellum." Schlechter 1922
Synonyms *Aa chiogena Schltr. 1922; Altensteinia chiogena (Schltr.) C.Schweinf. 1953
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 35 Schlechter 1922 as Aa chiogena
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 16: 2 C Schweinfurth 1953 as Altensteinia chiogena
Orchids of Peru. Vol 1: 94 Fieldiana, Bot. Schweinfurth 1958 as Altensteinia chiogena
* Lindleyana 10: 6 C A Vargas 1995
LANKESTERIANA 16(2). Delsy Trujillo, Paúl Gonzáles, Huber Trinidad & Asunción Cano 2016 THE ANDEAN GENUS MYROSMODES Drawing photo fide
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