Sacoila argentina (Griseb.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982

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Common Name The Argentina Sacoila

Flower Size

Found in Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina as a medium to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 3 to 4 basal, fasiculate, large, erect, intensely green, elliptic-oblong, acute to a bit obtuse, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later spring through fall on a terminal, erect, stout, 20 to 40" [50 to 100 cm] long, enveloped by distant acuminate bracts, rachis 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, very compact, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, glabrous, longer than the flowers, erect-patent, thinly membranaceous floral bracts.

Synonyms *Stenorrhynchos argentinum Griseb. 1879; Stenorrhynchos argentinum var. minor Cogn. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 339 Griseb. 1879 as Stenorrhynchos argentinum

Fl. Bras. 3(4): 160 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos argentinum

Fl. Bras. 3(4): tab 35 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos argentinum drawing fide

Fl. Bras. 3(4): 161 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos argentinum var. minor

Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 271 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945

Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: tab 145 Orchidaceae Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 351 Garay 1980 publ. 1982

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