Baskervilla pastasae Garay 1978
Photo by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Collection sheet and Drawing by © Harling, Storm and Strom and The Herbaria Virual Austral Americano Website
Drawings by © Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Common Name The Pastaza Baskervilla [A Province of Ecuador]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Pastaza and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador in pluvial montane forests at elevations around 1100 to 1300 meters as a large sized [with the inflorescence], cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, in a basal rosette, ovate, acute, elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 22" [55 cm] long, provided with a few, remote, sheathing bracts, rachis to 18" [45 cm] long, cylindrical, loosely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying non resupinate, green, turning pinkish with age flowers.
"Similar to Baskervilla venezuelana but B pastazae has obliquely trulliform, unguiculate.16 x .04" [4 x 1 mm] long petals while B venezuelana has obliquely triangular, .2 to .24 x .08 to .12" [5 to 6 x 2 to 3 mm] petals." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 210 Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 404 Dodson 1989 Drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 74 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 74-75 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawings fide
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