Cischweinfia leucocheila H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025
LCDP Photos by © Hugo Medina
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Common Name or Meaning The White Lipped Cischweinfia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in eastern Zamora Chinchile province of Ecuador under the canopy of trees on thin branches near creeks at elevations around 650 to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with a rhizome giving rise to elliptic to ovoid-elliptic, flattened, monophyletic pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 5, articulated with cataphylls, erosive-hyaline margined foliaceous sheaths covered by two lateral leaves and one apical leaf all light green, conduplicate at base, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, acute, mucronate, coarse, subcoriaceous, with an abaxially prominent midrib, acuminate apex, truncate base, are provided by a basal bract, the lateral leaves fall off as they mature, leaving only the apical leaf that blooms in the summer and again in the winter on a lateral, emerging from the axil of one of the pods when tender, in a short, semi-erect, provided with a lanceolate, acuminate, truncate basaly bract, simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence with broad, obtuse, hyaline, loose floral bracts and carrying small with barely perceptible fragrance.
"The new species compares with Cischweinfia parva , but differs in coloration of flowers light green, apex lip apiculate with reddish macules, arranged linearly on a yellow base on the hypocotyl vs. yellow-brown flowers, apex lip rounded with reddish lines on a faintly yellowish base; column whitish, cucula crenulate, wings yellow, sloping toward apex, stigmatic cavity yellow vs. column white, cucula dentate, wings white nearly horizontal, stigmatic cavity light brown in Cischweinfia parva." H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Andreettana 1(4): 7 H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025 2025 Photo/drawing fide
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