Crossoglossa dressleri Ormerod 2014

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod redrawn by K Winkiewicz

Common Name Dressler's Crossoglossum [American Botanist in Central America 1927 - 2019]

Flower Size

Found in San Jose province of Costa Rica and Bocas del Toro province of Panama in montane forests at elevations around 650 to 1000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, stem carrying densely, 3 to 9, ligulate to ligulate-oblanceolate, acute, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms at any time of the year on an erect, peduncle 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, evaginate, rachis to 6.52 to 14" [16.3 to 35 cm] long, sublaxy many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, margin entire to irregular, sometimes sparsely dentate, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts and pale green to green flowers.

"Superficially similar to C eustachys but terrestrial and not epiphytic, the plant with curved leaf bases and a shorter 1.4 to 4.2" [3.5 vs 10.5 cm] long, peduncle and smaller flowers [sepals 5.8 to 8 vs 10 to 12 mm] long]." Szlach & Kolan 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 19[1]: 102 Dressler 2014;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:52 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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