Crossoglossa oliveirae Ormerod 2014

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod redrawn by K Winkiewicz

Common Name Oliveir's Crossoglossum

Flower Size

Found in Chiriqui and Boca del Toro provinces of Panama in lower montane forests at elevations around 1100 to 1675 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 10 to 15, ligulate-lanceolate, acute to obtuse, margin undulate leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, peduncle 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, evaginate or provided with a single sheathing bract, rachis to 7.6 to 11.8" [19 to 29.5 cm] long, narrowly alate, alae irregularily dentate, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, margins irregularily dentate, just shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale green flowers.

Similar to Crossoglossa tipuloides but differs in the densely leafy stems with relatively short, wavy edged leaves and a densely flowered inflorescence. Szlach & Kolan 2023

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:62 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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