Crossoglossa garciana Ormerod 2013

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod Redrawn by Winkiewicz

LATER

Common Name Garcia's Crossoglossum [Colombian Original collector of the species current]

Flower Size

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in wet mid montane forests at elevations around 1900 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to a decumbent in the lower half, upper half erect stem carrying 10, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, margins wavy, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle 3.2" [8 cm] long, rachis to 7.84" [19.6 cm] long, successively? many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers with a white lip.

Similar to C lipariodes but differ in the shape of the basal callus of the lip Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 44 Ormerod 2013;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:57 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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