Pterichis seleniglossa Schltr. 1921 SECTION Acraea
TYPE Drawing by © S Nowak and Marta Kolanowska
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Common Name The Half Moon Shaped Lip Pterichis
Flower Size
Found in Ecuador in high montane forests and in grass paramo along roadsides at elevations around 3050 to 3300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, linear to oblong-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and winter on an erect, minutely puberulent in the upper part, peduncle 4.4 to 11" [11 to 27.5 cm] long, provided with 3 to 6 glandular sheaths, rachis 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, densely ciliate, sublaxly to subdensely 8 to 13 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, glandular-ciliate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with dark green or brown sepalsand petals and brown or yellow lip marked with red-brown or yellow.
"Schweinfurth (1958) and Garay (1978) considered this species synonymous with Pterichis triloba. Based on our study the two species differs in petal venation. Petals of P. seleniglossa are 1-veined (vs. 3-veined in P. triloba). Pterichis seleniglossa resembles the Bolivian P. mandonii Rolfe but in the latter species the mid lobe of the lip is much shorter." Kolanowska 2021
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Synopsis of Ecuadorian Pterichis [Orchidaceae] Kolanowska 2021 Drawing/collection sheet fide;
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