Jacquiniella gigantea Dressler, Salazar & García-Cruz 1992

TYPE DrawingTYPE Photo by E Hagsater © TYPE Drawing by Salazar and The Herbario AMO Website

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Common Name The Giant Jacquiniella

Flower Size

Found in Chiapas state of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in montane rainforests and dwarf forests at elevations of 1300 to 1650 metrs as a giant sized, cool growing, hanging epiphyte with pendent, terete, slender, straight stems carrying 1 to 6 per stem [usually 1 to 2], terete, gradually attenuate, adaxially sulcate, fleshy, dark green, punctulate with white leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, sessile, single flowered inflorescence subtended by a leaf -like, apical bract and three other bracts, of which the two outermost are subequal, conduplicate, subopposite-imbricating, yellowish - brown, chartaceous, oblong- elliptic to oblong-triangular when spread, acute to acuminate, keeled dorsally along the mid-line, rugose and more or less prominently veined, the innermost much smaller and completely hidden, scarious, brown, obliquely funnel-form, acuminate and rather small and completely hidden inside the large bracts of the inflorescence, membranous, greenish-white, obliquely funnel-form , obtuse, shortly apiculate floral bracts and carrying a downward pointing, usually cleistogamous, occasionally opening but self -pollinating, odorless, somewhat fleshy flower.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 12(2): 145. Febrero 1992 photo/drawing fide

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