Baskervilla auriculata Garay 1978
Photo by © Ivan Jimenez and The Slideshare Website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Garay
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Common Name or Meaning The Eared Baskervilla [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .2" [6 mm]
Found in Napo, Pichincha and Zamora-Santiago provinces of Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations around 1100 to 2500 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying a basal rosette of 7, broadly ovate, acute to abruptly acuminate, basally rounded into the long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, glabrous, to 2' [60 cm] long overall, rachis 10" [25 cm] long, cylindrical, subdensely many flowered inflorescence that is distantly 4 to 5 sheathed with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards floral bracts carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Similar to Baskervilla colombiana but differs in the
The photo above is the variety from Bolivia, the drawing in the Ecuadorian type.
Similar to Baskervilla colombiana but B auriculata differs in the larger flowers, differently proportioned lip and auricualte petals." Gaay a 1978
Synonyms Baskervilla auriculata var. yungasensis T.Hashim. 1992
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 905 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;
Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, B. 18: 36 T Hashim 1992 as Baskervilla auriculata var. yungasensis
Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 drawing photo fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 71 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 72-73 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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