Crossoglossa pichinchae (Schltr.) Dodson 1993
Photo by © Alex Hirtz
Drawing by © B Cuthbertson
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Common Name The Pichincha Crossoglossa [A department of Ecuador]
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Found in Pichinche province of Ecuador on road embankments at elevations around 1500 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying distichous, thin, conduplicate at maturity, crisped to wavy margins, narrowly lanceolate, plicate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, winged, 10 to 12" [25 to 30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.
Distinguished by the short stems, large flowers and narrowly ovate, non-pandurate, sagitate basally, basal ring-like thickening, with the forward margin subquadrate lip and the apex of the inflorescence erect.
Synonyms *Microstylis pichinchae Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 118 Schlechter 1915 as Microstylis pichinchae
*Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador 225 [2] Orchidaceae AA - Cyrtidiorchis Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as C hirtzii photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:43 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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