!Baskervilla assurgens Lindl. 1840
Photo by © Carlos Uribe Velez
Photo by © Wilson Quizhpe, V. Grand, D. Veintimilla, H. Salas & P. Wampash
Drawing by © Alcantara, Bennett & Christenson 1995
Common Name The Ascending Baskervilla
Flower Size
Found in Colombia, Morona-Santiago and Zamora-cChinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Cuzco department of Peru on grassy banks in cool cloud forests, at elevations around 1150 to 1650 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with several, in a basal rosette, strongly oblanceolate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, velvety textured, narrowing below into the 3.6" [9 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 10" [25 cm] long, terete, provided with 4 to 5, non-articulated, foliaceous, tubular, sheathing bracts, rachis to 8" [20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"This species resembles Baskervilla stenopetala but can be distinguished by the petiole of the leaf half the size of the blade and the middle lobe of the lip is oblong-obovate." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 505 Lindley 1840
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257 - 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 Drawing hmm;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 208 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 68 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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