Crossoglossa sprucei Ormerod 2014
TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod redrawn by K Winkiewicz
Common Name Spruce's Crossoglossum [English Orchid Collector in the mid 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador in montane forests without elevational data as a medium sized terrestrial with a prostrate, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying laxly to 10 ligulate-oblanceolate, acute, margins wavy, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, peduncle .348" [8.7 cm] long, evaginate, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with slender, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying reddish green flowers.
Similar to Crossoglossa kolanowska but differs in the long narrow leaves to 6" [15 cm] long, and the quadrilobulate lip callus with divergent arms superposed with 2 small circular lobeules. Known only from the type." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Pap. Bot. 19: 110 Ormerod 2014;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:66 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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