Sarcoglottis cerina (Lindl.) P. N. Don 1845
Photo by © Maria Teresa Diaz Colocho
Photos by © A L de Macvean and The Arboretum de la Universidad Francisco Marroquin Website
Plant in situ Mexico silver spotted leaves
Photo by © Clarence Horich
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Waxy Colored Sarcoglottis
Flower Size
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a rosette of elliptic, acute, basally clasping silver spotted or striped leaves that are not present at blooming in the late fall, winter and mid spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8" [20 cm] long, provided with a few clear purple sheathing bracts, rachis 4" [10 cm] long, pubescent, several to many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Pelexia cerina (Lindl.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Spiranthes cerina Lindl. 1842; Zhukowskia cerina (Lindl.)Zhukowskia Szlach 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28(Misc.): 20 Lindley 1842 as Spiranthes cerina
* Hortus Cantabrig., ed. 13: 590 P N Don 1845
Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol II: 300-301 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes cerina drawing ok;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 343 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Pelexia cerina
Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 photo plant only;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as Spiranthes cerina photo fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas:381 55-6 Behar & Tinschert 1998 as Zhukowskia cerina photo fide
Adansonia, sér. 3, 22: 236 Zhukowskia Szlach 2000 as Zhukowskia cerina
Adansonia, sér. 3, 22: 237 fig 1 A B Zhukowskia Szlach 2000 as Zhukowskia cerina drawing fide
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae: 78 MBG UNAM 2023 as Zhukowskia cerina
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