Greenwoodiella micrantha (Lex.) Salazar & R.Jiménez 2016 Photo by © Julio Valdez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Plant in situ Temalscaltepec Mexico 2300 meters Photos by © Eduoard Faria
EARLY
Common Name The Cerro Llaves Greenwoodiella [a Hill in Honduras]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica at elevations around 2300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with an erect stem carrying 1 to 2, green, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the purple spotted, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, long, slender, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying diurnally fragrant flowers.
There is a lot of variability in the species as can be seen between the 2 photos above. .
Synonyms *Neottia micrantha Lex. 1825; Schiedeella alinae (Szlach.) Szlach. 1994; Schiedeella llaveana [Lindl.] Schltr. 1920; Schiedeella llaveana var. alinae Szlach. 1991; Schiedeella llaveana var. guerrerensis Szlach. 1991; Schiedeella llaveana subsp. szlachetkoana R.González 1999 publ. 2000; Schiedeella petiolata Schltr. 1923; Schiedeella transversalis (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr. 1920; Spiranthes llaveana Lindl. 1844; Spiranthes transversalis A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes llaveana drawing/photo fide; ORQUIDEA (Méx . ) 8(1) 1981; Las Orquideas de el Slavador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as S transversalis drawing/photo not; Icones Plantarum Tropiocarum Plate 1269 Hamer 1985 as Schiedeela llaveana drawing ok; Orquídea (Méx.) 13(1-2): . Tamayo 1993 as Schiedeela llaveana Drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as Schiedeela llaveana; Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 as Schiedeela llaveana drawing/photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Schiedeela llaveana;
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