Pseudocentrum hirtzii Szlach. & Kolan. 2016 SECTION Pseudocentrum
Plant and Flowers in situ Colombia
Photo by Marta Kolanowska/TYPE Drawing by © A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska
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Common Name Hirtz's Pseudocentrum [German Engineer, Orchid Enthusiast and Orchid Collector in Ecuador current]
Flower Size
Found in Colombia?? and Pichincha province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2800 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 4 basal, in a loose rosette, elliptic, acute, to 4" [10 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, peduncle 18" [45 cm] long, glabrous, provided with 3, non-foliaceous sheaths, rachis to 16.8" [29 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, obtuse, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers
This species resembles Pseudocentrum minus but it has an ovate dorsal sepal, entire lateral lobes and a narrowly cylindrical, sepaline spur that is gently attenuate towards the apex and is densely pubescent. " Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
CAUTION!! The photos above were taken in Colombia and it is not officially cited for there. Szltchetko and kolanowska listed it as Pseudocentrum cf hirtzii. The Drawing is from the type plant so it is absolutely correct.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Webbia 71: 41 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2016
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 123 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 124 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: Plates 157-159 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 photo fide
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