Selenipedium aequinoctiale Garay 1978
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Dr. Clark Riley and His Cypripedilum Page
Photo courtesy of David Jubineau Copyright ©
TYPE Drawings © by Garay
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Common Name The Equatorial Ocurring Selenipidum
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Choco, Narino, Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Esmeraldas and Pastaza provinces of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 550 to 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with suberect to arcuate pendent, branched, elongated, slender cane-like stems carrying alternate, widely spaced, thin, lanceolate to ellipitc lanceolate, chartaceous, puberulent, plicate leaveswith basal sheathing stems and blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal or from axis of upper branches, arcuate, puberulent, short, bracteate, successively several [to 10] flowered inflorescence.
Easily confused with S chica but separated by the narrower leaf and the different staminode. It is separated from Selenipedium palmifolium by the stalked, oblong-deltoid to lanceolate, acute staminode versus subsessile, ovate and truncate. This species has a rounded ovary in cross section while S palmifolium is triangular.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 297 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 6 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #6 2007 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #10 2007 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #1 2016 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #1 2019 photo fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 41 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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