Crossoglossa santamartana Ormerod 2013

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod redrawn by K Winkiewicz

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Common Name The Santa Marta Crossoglossa

Flower Size

Found in Magdalena department of Colombia in montane primary forests at elevations around 1675 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, presumed terrestrial with a prostrate, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, densely leafy stem carrying 6 to 12, to ligulate-lanceolate, obtuse, margins wavy, 5 veined leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, peduncle 2.92 to 4.96" [7.3 to 9.9 cm] long, provided with 1 to 2 sheathing beacts, rachis to 7.2 to 8" [19.5 to 20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, margins irregualarily erose, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers of unknown color.

"Seems close to C acuminatissima but differs in the twice larger flowrs a lip with a caudate apex, and a lip callus with lanceolate-subulate arms. Not found since 1898." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 47 Ormerod 2013;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:70 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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