Sarcoglottis herzogii Schltr. 1925

Photo by © Hermes R. Justiniano Suarez and The Bolivia Nature Website

Part Shade Warm LATESpring

Common Name Herzog's Sarcoglottis [German Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Bolivia at elevations around 700 meters as a large sized, warm growing terrestrial with unknown leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, strict, terete, towards the base glabrous, glandular-pubescent towards the apex, peduncle to 20.8" [52 cm] long, provided with 8, distant, tightly clasping sheathing bracts, rachis to 5.2" [13 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, slightly lonqer than the flower floral bracts carrying glandular-pilose externally, glabrous inside flowers

Closest to S ventriculosa but easily distinguished by the relateively small flowers, their shape and pubescence and by its different lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21: 332 Schlechter 1925

Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 339 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945

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