Sauroglossum aurantiacum (C.Schweinf.) Garay 1978
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Common Name The Orange Sauroglossum
Flower Size
Found in Huanuco and Cusco departments of Peru on heath covered slopes at elevations of 2800 to 3150 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 5 or less, basal, rosulate, oblong to elliptic, more or less acute, gradually narrowing below into a more or less distinct petiolate base leaves usually present at blooming occuring in the spring and summer on an erect, slender to stout, more or less glandular-tomentose above, , to 28" [70 cm] long overall, short to elongate, provided with several, more or less remote, tubular sheathing bracts, rachis 1.2" to 10" [3 to 25 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence enveloped by several more or less remote, tubular sheaths and carrying orange to dull brick-red flowers with the sepals externally glandular-pubecent.
In general appearance similar to Sauroglossum longiflorum , in floral details similar to Sauroglossum elatum
Synonyms *Spiranthes weberbaueri var. aurantiaca C.Schweinf. 1951; Synassa aurantiaca (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 15: 7 C Schweinfurth 1951 as Spiranthes weberbaueri var. aurantiaca
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 26: 18 Garay 1978
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 149 Schweinfurth 1958 as Spiranthes weberbaueriana var aurantiaca
Phylogeny Taxon. Subtr. Spiranthinae Stenorrhynchidinae Cyclopogoninae Centr. S. Amer.: 145 Szlach. & Rutk. 2008 as Synassa aurantiaca
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