Baskervilla machupicchuensis Nauray & Christenson 2001
Photos by Rebecca Repasky and Atrium Biodiversity website
TYPE Drawing by Bennett & Christenson
Common Name or Meaning The Macchu Picchu Baskervilla
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Cusco department of Peru in humus mats in cloud forests at elevations around 2750 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a short, ascending stem carrying elliptic, abruptly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, to 22.48" [56.2 cm] long, provided with a few, lowermost foliaceous, distant, long, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 8.8" [22 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with distant bracts and linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying numerous, non resupinate flowers.
"Most similar to Baskervilla auriculata but B macchupichuensis has the lateral lobes of the labellum less than half the length of the column and fall far short of the rostellum. In B auriculata the lateral lobes of the labellum are more than 2/3's the length of the labellum and are subequal to the length of the rostellum. In B auriculata the midlobe of the lip is ovate and in contrast it is oblong in B macchupichuensis.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Orchidaceaerum Peruviarum plate 606 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide
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