Koellensteinia morona-santiagoensis H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Hugo Medina
Common Name or Meaning The Morona Santiago Kollensteinia
Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]
Found in Morona Santiago province of Ecuador in primary forests at elevations around 580 to 650 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphtye with a short rhizome giving rise to ensiform, heteroblastic pseudobulbs enveloped by to 3, foliaceous linear, papyraceous, multi-veined, apex slightly acuminate and truncate base sheaths and carrying 2, apical, lanceolate to oblanceolate, dark green, smooth, semi-leathery, with parallel venation, entire margin, slightly arching, subcartilaginous, plicate, conduplicate with veins channeled abaxially, with an acute-apiculate apex, basally attenuate into a petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a single, erect, lateral, semi erect, peduncle 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, brown, becoming lighter towards the apex, cylindrical, enveoped by amplexicaul, broadly triangular, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis light brown, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, simultaneously approximately 4 flowered inflorescence with green, lanceolate, acute apex with a truncate base carrying odorless, resupinate, pedicellate, yellowish to creamy with purple striped flowers
"The new species resembles Koellensteinia graminea It differs mainly in plant size 10 to 10.8" (25–27 cm long) and flower coloration (creamy yellow with thick purple lines) vs. short plant 6 to 9.2" (15–23 cm), yellowish flowers with much more pronounced purple lines. Sepals and petals narrow, with well-marked linear spots, slightly arched toward the column, vs. sepals and petals with fine linear spots tinged with purple, arched toward the column. Rhomboid trilobed lip, apical part equal in proportion to lateral lobes, with purple transverse lines, with a prominent callus open in a shallow ‘V’ shape. Vs. Rhomboid lip, apically trilobed much shorter than the lateral lobes, with broad purple transverse lines, with a deep open basal callus forming two wings in the middle in Koellensteinia graminea." H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Andreettana 1(4): 48 H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025 photo/drawing fide
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