Sarcoglottis woodsonii (L.O.Williams) Garay 1980 publ. 1982
Photos by © Marcel Esquivel, Emanuel Pineda and Jeffry Flores and the Finca Cántaros website
Drawing by © Szlachetko
TYPE Collection sheet by © Woodson, L O Williams and the Harvard Herbaria
Common Name Woodson's Sarcoglottis [American Botanist and original Collector of species 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama in swampy meadows at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a unique for the genus, the roots distributed along the, slender subterranean rhizome giving rise to a slender, short stem carrying well developed, 3 basal, glabrous leaves that become distant and bract-like and pubescent above, the oblong-elliptic to oval, acute to obtuse leaves are largest near the base and become bractlike towards the apex that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 19.2 to 22" [48 to 55 cm] long, provided with 4 to 7, tubular, herbaceous, glabrous, adpressed, apex, acute, free, longer than the internodes sheathing bracts, rachis to 1.8 to 4" [4.5 to 10 cm] long, congested, lateral, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent dorsally, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small for the genus, erect, tubular flowers.
"Spiranthes Woodsonii is not very closely allied to any Central American species of the genus. The species is particularly distinctive in having a creeping underground rhizome or stem instead of the usual fascicle of fleshy roots. In flower structure Spiranthes Woodsonii approaches !Sarcoglottis acaulis but in detail it is amply distinct." L O Williams 1942
Synonyms *Spiranthes woodsonii L.O.Williams 1942
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29: 337 L O Williams 1942 as Spiranthes woodsonii
The Orchids of Panama: 49 L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Spiranthes woodsonii drawing fide;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 355 Garay 1980 publ. 1982
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 286 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 287 fig 279 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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