Pseudocentrum truncipetalum Szlach. & Kolan. 2020 SECTION Pseudocentrum
Photos by © Holger Beck and the I Naturalist Website
TYPE Drawing by © A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska
EARLY 
Common Name The Truncate petal Pseudocentrum
Flower Size
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2070 to 2430 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 11, all along the stem, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, decreasing in size towards the apex, the upper ones sessile, the lower ones petiolate, cuneate below into the to 2.8" [to 7 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, glabrous, rachis to 4.8" [12 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with elliptic-ovate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
" This species shares with Pseudocentrum cauliifolium leaves distributed along the stem. The unique character of this species are the petals with truncate apices." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 127 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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