Sarcoglottis maasorum Pabst 1979

TYPE Drawing by © Guido Pabst 1979

Common Name Maas' Sarcoglottis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Guyana in wet rainforests at elevations of 450 to 550 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of ovate, acute, pale brown with rose colored spots, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 6.4" [16 cm] long, provided with papery, acuminate, glabrous, as long as the internodes sheathing bracts, few flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

The new species belongs to a small group of species characterized by basal leaves and few flowered inflorescence usually between 1 and 5 flowered. It is readily distinguished from them by the shape and form of the wide, apical lobe of the lip being transversely rhomboid." Pabst 1979

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bradea 3: 21 Pabsat 1979

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