!Xerorchis amazonica Schltr. 1912
Photo by Fabricera08 and the INaturalist Website
Drawing courtesy of Iptek Net Website
Common Name The Amazon Xerorchis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Surinam, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru at elevations around 120 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial orchid with an erect, thin, basally branching and fractiflex above stem enveloped by sheaths gradually grading above into three veined, middle vein slightly sulcate, carinate, narrowly linear, acute, basally clasping and adnate to the stem leaves that blooms in the summer on several, lateral, short, rachis fractiflex, successively single, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the stem from the leaf axils.
"Separated from the similar Xerorchis trichorhiza by the form and size of the floral bracts. X amazonica has linear floral bracts instead of ovate-lanceolate floral bracts, the middle lobe of the lip is orbicular versus cuneate-ovate and the ecallose disc of the lip versus with 2 obliquely inserted calli in the center." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 45 Schlechter 1912
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
wiry, Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing ok;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 drawing/collection sheet fide;
LANKESTERIANA 20(2): 67–216. Ossenbach & Jenny 2020 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:184 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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