Sarcoglottis calcicola Bogarín & Pupulin 2021
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Bogarin and F. Pupulin 2021
Common Name The Limestone Living Sarcoglottis
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm] long
Found in Guanacaste province of Costa Rica on limestone outcrops at elevations around 400 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with 3 to 7, not present at blooming, in a basal rosette, oblanceolate, elliptic-obovate to oblong, acute, somewhat petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, terminal, stout, peduncle 16.8 to 17.2" [42 to 43 cm] long, provided with 6 to 10, tightly adpressed, tubular, acute, somewhat glandular sheathing bracts, rachis 2.8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm] long, successively to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, basally glandular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying densely glandular-pubescent externally, resupinate, basally tubular, arcuate towards the apex, yellow green, green to yellowish brown flowers
"Plants are deciduous during the dry season when they are in bloom. After the dry season, the plants develop several leaves arranged in a basal rosette. S cacicola is characterized by the terrestrial plants without pseudobulbs, the succulent fasciculate roots, and sessile leaves arranged into a basal rosette, deciduous during the blooming season. The size and shape of leaves vary, and some plants have white-spotted leaves. The flowers are arcuate, with the lateral sepals strongly falcate. Other Sarcoglottis species from the area are similar; however, S. calcicola differs in the congested inflorescence, floral bracts shorter than the ovary (rather than as long as or longer than the ovary), the small flowers with lip less than .8" [2 cm] long, the falcate petals and the base of midlobe rounded, with 2 keels converging at apex. These keels are similar to those of Sarcoglottis sceptrodes , also known from Guanacaste, but the latter has leaves mostly marked with silvery stripes and blotches, floral bracts (distinctly exceeding the middle of the ovary), and much larger flowers on a laxly flowered raceme." Bogarín & Pupulin 2021
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Harvard Pap. Bot. 26: 80 Bogarín & Pupulin 2021
Harvard Pap. Bot. 26: 81 Bogarín & Pupulin 2021Drawing fide
Harvard Pap. Bot. 26: 78 fig B Bogarín & Pupulin 2021 photo fide
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