Sarcoglottis schwackei (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by Cogniaux
Drawing by Hoehne
Common Name Schwacke's Sarcoglottis [German Mining Engineer and Orchid Collector in Brasil 1800's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial without leaves at blooming on erect, terminal, peduncle 14" [35 cm] long, enveloped by 11, imbricating, foliaceous, lanceolate, inflated apically, glabrous, lowermost obtuse and glabrous and becoming acuminate and extensively puberulous above sheathing bracts that blooms in the spring on an erect, rachis 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, acute, as long as the flower floral bracts.
"The species is distinguished by the relatively abundant inflorescence with flower with a rather tongue shaped lip the is somewhat broadened anteriorly, then strongly contracted and finally spreading into a broad kidney shaped, wavy edged and densely papillose anterior lobe with two basal keels." Schlechter 1920
Synonyms *Spiranthes schwackei Cogn. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 212 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes schwackei
Fl. Bras. 3(4): Tab 47 fig 3 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes schwackei drawing fide
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 421 Schlehcter 1920
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 321 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: tab 174 Orchidaceae Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
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