Crossoglossa boekeana Ormerod 2014

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod redrawn by K Winkiewicz

Common Name Boeke's Crossoglossum [Original Collector of the species current]

Flower Size

Found in Napo province of Ecuador in montane primary forests at elevations of 2390 to 2590 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a prostrate, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 5 to 7, lanceolate to ligulate-oblanceolate, acute, margins wavy leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle 5.4 to 6.4" [13.5 to 16 cm] long, stout, evaginate, rachis to 8.12 to 11.36" [20.3 to 28.4 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, margins irregualarily erose, almost twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers with a yellow ovary.

"Unique in the genus with the sepals united to form a synsepal and with a single line [not a cluster or patch] of papillae on each side of the callus of the lip." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 98 Ormerod 2014;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:69 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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