Crossoglossa frontinoensis Szlach. & Kolan. 2013
Drawings by © Szlachetko. & Kolanowska and The Research Gate Website
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Common Name The Frontino Crossoglossa [A town in Antioquia department of Colombia]
Flower Size
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in montane forests at elevations of 1700 to 1900 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a caulescent stem surrounded by distichous, imbricating, floliaceous leaf sheaths and carrying numerus oblanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the cuneate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and again in the fall on an erect, peduncle to .76" [18 cm] long, rachis laxly flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acute, half as long a as the ovary flora lbracts and carrying flowers of unknown colors.
" Closest to C acuminatissima sharing the narrow oblanceolate leaves and a siliate margined lip with a caudate-acuminate apex. C frontinensis differs in the longer inflorescence peduncle 6.4 vs 4 to 4.8" [16 cm] long, vs 10 to 12 cm] long, and the lip with an elliptic-obovate vs ovate-lanceolate basal half." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Nordic J. Bot. 31: 446 Szlach. & Kolan 2013 Drawings fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:70 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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