!Condylago rodrigoi Luer 1982
Photo by © Ron Ehlers and courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Rodrigo's Condylago [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1/8" [5 mm]
Endemic to Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations of 1400 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short ramicaul enveloped basally by 1 to 2 dry sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, short petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a loose, flexuous, successively many flowered, 10" [25 cm] long, arching, racemose inflorescence holding the pubescent flower well above the leaves.
Synonyms Stelis rodrigoi (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; *Orquideología 15(2-3): 118. 1982 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 11 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 11 1998 photo; Lindleyana 16: 266. 2001 as Stelis rodrigoi; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
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