Eltroplectris ortiziana (Szlach., Lamczyk & Baranow) J.M.H.Shaw 2016

TYPE Drawing by © (Szlach., Lamczyk & Baranow and The Reaserch Gate Website

Fig. 1. Ochyrella ortiziana (drawn from the holotype by M. Lamczyk & P. Bar- anow). — A : Habit. — B : Lip and spur. — C : Petal. — D : Dorsal sepal. — E : Lateral sepal. 

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Common Name Padre Pedro Ortiz's Eltroplectris [Colombian Jesuit Monk and Orchid Botanist 1926 - 2012]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Amazonas department of Colombia as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, basal,obliquely oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 28 to 36 cm] long, provided with 4 to 7 cauline sheathing bracts, rachis 4.8 to 6.8" [12 to 17 cm] long, 8 to 12 flowered inflorescence with obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, a bit longer than the ovary floral bractsand carrying greenish white flowers witha light reddish ovary.

"Easy to distinguish by the glandular spur and the deeply 3 lobed lip." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms *Ochyrella ortiziana Szlach., Lamczyk & Baranow 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Ann. Bot. Fenn. 50: 285 Ochyrella ortiziana (Orchidaceae, Spiranthoideae), a New Species from Colombia Szlachetko., Lamczyk & Baranow 2013

*Orchid Rev. 124(1314, Suppl.): 36 JMH Shaw 2016;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 232 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Ochyrella ortizoana drawing fide

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