Corymborkis galipanensis (Rchb.f.) Foldats 1959
Drawing by © Foldats
Collection sheet and drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Cerro Galipan Corymborkis [A hill in Venezuela]
Flower Size .4" [2 cm]
Found in Quindio department of Colombia and northern Venezuela at elevations around 1200 meters as a giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with simple, glabrous stems that are enveloped basally by several plicate sheaths and carrying 6 or so, on the apical portion of the stem, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, acuminate, strongly attenuate and pseudo-petiolate basally leaves that blooms in the late fall on an axillary, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, paniculate, branches subpatent, smooth to somewhat scaly, sub-laxly 7 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Corymbis galipanensis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1865; *Macrostylis galipanensis Rchb.f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 11 Rchb.f 1854 as Macrostylis galipanensis
Flora 48: 184 Rchb.f 1865 as Corymbis galipanensis
*Acta Biol. Venez. 2: 400 Foldats 1959
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Orchidaceae Part 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 239 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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