Sarcoglottis hunteriana Schltr. 1922
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Drawing by © Szlachetko 2019
MID
EARLIER
Common Name Hunter's Sarcoglottis
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in shady damp places in broadleafed forests at elevations up to 1100 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2 to 7, basal, appearing at the end of flowering, oblong, obovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, fleshy, clear green, elongate, 1.8 to 4" [4.5 to 10 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the mid-winter and earlier spring on an erect, teminal, peduncle 11.6 to 23.6" [29 to 59 cm] long, slender to relatively stout, in the upper part minutely and sparsely glandular, provided with 6 to 12, tubular,a caute, longer than the internodes, except the uppermost, glabrous, the upper ones sometimes sparsely glandular, rachis, 5.6 to 6.8" [14 to 17 cm] long, densely glandular, laxly 6 to 11 flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, herbaceous, thin, delicate, with hyaline margins, glabrous to minutely glandular on the margins and externally at the base, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying large tubular below, arched above flowers with a brown to green lip or apple green with a dark veined lip.
"S hunteriana and !Sarcoglottis acaulis share similar lateral sepals, which are falcate, versus S powelii which are arcuate. The lateral sepals of S hunteriana are acuminate, with a slightly pendent apex, and the epichile is longer than wide. In S acaulis the lateral sepals are acute and the epichile is wider than long. S hunteriana differs from S acaulis in the clear green leaves.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 13 Schlechter 1922
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 290 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae: 76 MBG UNAM 2023
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