Crossoglossa nanegalensis Dodson ex Dodson 1995
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Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website
LATER 
Common Name The Nanegal Crossoglossa [A region of Pichincha department of Ecuador]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Pichincha Ecuador at elevations around 1700 to 2400 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with caulescent, recumbent to erect stems enveloped by imbricating, distichous leaf sheaths carrying membraneous, elliptic, acuminate, narrowing below into the long-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, elongate, peduncle to 5.2" [13 cm] long, rachis to 12" [30 cm] long, recurved apically, spirally arranged, many flowered inflorescence with awl-shaped, entire margin floral bracts and carrying yellow green flowers.
Distinguished by the nodding apex of the inflorescence, the pandurate lip longer than .28" [7mm], the truncate apex, and saggitate base, with entire margins, the shallow longitudinal keel down the center of the lip, and the lack of a bassl callus.
Synonyms Crossoglossa nanegalensis Dodson 1993 nom inval.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 523 Dodson 1989 as Malaxis lloensis drawing fide;
Orquideologia 19: 88 Dodson 1993 nom inval;
*Lindleyana 10(1): 3. Dodson ex Dodson 1995;
Flora of Ecuador 225 [2] Orchidaceae AA - Cyrtidiorchis Dodson & Luer 2005;
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