Crossoglossa neirynckiana Szlach. & Marg. 2001

TYPE Drawing by © Szlach. & Marg. 2001

Common Name Neirynck's Crossoglossum

Flower Size

Found in Napo, Pastaza and Carchi provinces of Ecuador and Pasco department of Peru in montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a prostrate, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 6 to 11, oblong-lanceolate, acute, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle to 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, rachis to 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers.

Similar to C tipuloides but it is unclear if they may be the same, needs more research. Szlach & Kolan 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Flora of Ecuador 225 [2]:280 Orchidaceae AA - Cyrtidiorchis Dodson & Luer 2005 as C tipuloides; drawing fide;

*Ann. Bot. Fenn. 38: 91 Szlach. & Marg. 2001;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:54 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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