Sarcoglottis maroaensis G.A.Romero & Carnevali 2010
Photos by © G Romero.
Photos by © Pascal Mazeau/Drawing by Dessin Marie Aucourd and Richardiana Vol 6: 224 Aurélien Sambin & Marie Aucourd 2022
Drawing by Bobbi Angel and Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
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Common Name The Maroa Sarcoglottis [A town in Amazonas Venezuela]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Amazonas department of Colombia, Amazonas state of Venezuela and French Guiana at elevations around 100 to 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of 3 to 6, dark brown above with dark green and lighter red spots, light reddish brown beneath, with a prominent, reddish central nerve and 2 flat reddish nerves on each side, elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, attenuate, narrowing below into the reddish petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8" [20 cm] long, provided with 4 reddish, shorter than the internodes, acute herbaceous, glandular bracts, rachis erect, reddish, glandular, 5.6 to 6" [14 to 15 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with reddish, lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, glandular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying erect flowers
"In shape and size of labellum it is similar to S. metallica but the new species differs in the cream flowers with dark reddish veins in the sepals, petals, and labellum, and the leaves of different color. In flower color it is similar to S. ventricosa (Vell.) Hoehne (synonym: S. rufescens Klotzsch) but the inflorescence of S. maroaënsis is more lax and not lanate, the flowers are smaller, and lateral sepals and labellum are different." Ormerod & Romero 2010
In general flower appearance this species resembles Sarcoglottis sceptrodes but differs in the non-undulate, acuminate lateral sepals and the ruggose lip callus." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Lankestriana 9(3): 514 Romero & Ormerod 2010 Drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 305 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 306 fig 298 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 307 fig 299 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide
Richardiana Vol 6: 224 Aurélien Sambin & Marie Aucourd 2022 Drawing/photos fide
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