Sarcoglottis homalogastra (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr.1920
Photos by Hisanori Takeuchi
Drawing by Hoehne
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Common Name The Smooth Bellied Sarcoglottis [refers to the sepals not having hair on the outside]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Amazonas department of Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Minas Gerais and Parana states of Brazil and Argentina as a medium sized, warm to cool growing almost leafless at blooming terrestrial orchid with an erect, thick stem almost completely enveloped by the inferior, retusiculate bracts and the superior, with almost lanceolate, recurved, unequally retusiusculate apice bracts that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect to 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, densely many flowered cylindric inflorescence with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, glandular externally, as long as to longer than the ovary floral bracts amd carrying large, green, abruptly deflexed from the erect ovary and then upcurved, hence appearing sigmoid flowers and with densely pilose ovaries, pedicels and the underside of the lip.
Easily distinguished by the large, green flowers bent in a very distinctive sigmoid manner. The shape of the lip is also quite unique and the hypochile is sometimes ornamented with 2 parallel keels.
Synonyms Gyrostachys homalogastra (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Kuntze 1891; *Spiranthes homalogastra Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia: 84 Rchb.f 1881 as Spiranthes homalogastra;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys homalogastra
Flora Brasilense Vol 3 Part 4: 311 Cogniaux 1895
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 417 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 322 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 175 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #5 2010 photo not ??????;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 288 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 289 fig 281 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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