Phragmipedium cabrejosii Damian, M.Díaz & Pupulin 2019 SECTION Lorifolia

LCDP Photo by © Damian, M.Díaz & Pupulin 2019

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Common Name Phragmipedium [ Juan Martin Cabrejos Meza, a recognized grower of Peruvian Phragmipedium who first noticed that the species herein described could represent an undescribed taxon, current]

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in Junin department of Peru at elevations of ?800 to 1000? meters as a small sized, caespitose, warm growing terrestrial or litophyte with sedge-like, linear,, arcuate, acute, smooth, strongly keeled, glabrous, pale green, lighter green beneath, the margins slightly revolute leaves that blooms in the late fall on an erect, simple, raceme 2.8 to 3" [7 to 7.5 cm] tall, provided with oval sheathing bracts, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with conduplicate, ovate, acute, greenish yellow, 9-veined, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"P cabrejosii has a very small habit for the section, superficially similar to Phragmipedium caricinum , but with the inflorescence simple (vs. branched), the dorsal sepal elliptic (vs. lanceolate), flushed white apically (vs. yellow, flushed maroon), the petals comparatively shorter, not twisted apically (vs. twisted), pale yellow slightly tinged with rose (vs. purple, striped with dark purple), the rim of the anterior margin of the lip reduced (vs. prominent), the lateral, infolded lobes white (vs. yellow, heavily blotched with red), the staminodial shield ovate-subrhombic (vs. reniform), distinctly longer than the column (vs. shorter). It may also be compared with Phragmipedium pearcei , from which it is easily distinguished by the cespitose habit (shortly stoloniferous in P. pearcei), the unbranched, sparsely pubescent inflorescence (vs. branched, densely hairy), the flower color, the densely pubescent apex of the petals (vs. sparsely pubescent), the glabrous rim of the lip (vs. minutely pubescent) and the shape of the staminode (ovate-subrhombic vs. broadly cordate)." Damian, M.Díaz & Pupulin 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytotaxa 423: 260 Damian, M.Díaz & Pupulin 2019 LCDP fide

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