Sertifera colombiana Schltr. 1920 SECTION Sertifera Szlach & Baranow
Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Colombian Sertifera
Flower Size .2" [5 cm]
Found in Antioquia and Cauca departments of Colombia, Venezuela and Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations of 2500 to 3200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial often in dense clumps with flexuous, pubescnt roots giving rise to an erect to pendent, unbranched, densely leafy stem carrying erect-patent, elliptic to lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 5 nerved, sessile to the verruculose, imbricating sheaths leaves that blooms in the summer, late fall and early winter on an axillary, peduncle distinctly compressed, ancipitous, short, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, racemose, successively few, 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acute, shorer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, subglobose, purple flowers with the petals often pinkish and the lip white apically.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 46 Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay as S purpurea in error drawing ok;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983 drawing ok;
Native Colombian Orchids VOl 6 COS 1998 drawing/photo ok;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:194 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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