Crossoglossa kolanowskae Ormerod 2014

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod redrawn by K Winkiewicz

Common Name Kolanowska's Crossoglossum [Polish botanist current]

Flower Size

Found in Imbabura provinces of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2850 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 6 to 7, sometimes forming a pseudostem of 3 superposd stems, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, margin wavy leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, peduncle 2.4 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, evaginate, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying light green flowers with a brown striped lip.

Similar to Crossoglossa sprucei but differs in the half as long leaves and flowers witha relatively broader lip and a simpler callus without interposed circular lobules." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 19[1]: 107 Ormerod 2013;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:63 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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