Cryptocentrum pergracile Schltr. 1924 SUBGENUS Cryptocentrum
Plant and Flowers insitu Morona Santiago 2400 meters Flower
Insitu Morona Santiago 2400 meters Photos by Jay Pfahl
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Graceful Cryptocentrum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Azuay and Morona Santiago provinces of Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, short stem enveloped completely by distichously arranged, coriaceous, narrowly linear leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a few basal, 3 to 5" [7.5 to 12.5 cm] long, single flowered, arcuate inflorescence enveloped by several vaginate sheaths with the uppermost enveloping the ovary and the lip spur.
Synonyms Maxillaria pergracilis (Schltr.) Schuit. & M.W.Chase 2015
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:103 Schlechter 1924; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 419 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo = C hirtzii; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Cryptocentrum sp #136 drawing/photo ok; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide
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