Sarcoglottis uliginosa Barb.Rodr. 1877

Plant and Flowers in situ Photos by © Marcelo Pedron and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Part Shade Cold MID Spring

Common Name The Swamp Living Sarcoglottis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Brazil and Misiones and Corrientes Argentina in swampy areas as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with numerous, basal, rosulate, erect, subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to slightly acute, fleshy, clear green, concave, attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, thin, enveloped by 2 to 3, submembraneous, slightly ventircose, pale green, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent bracts, 8 to 16" [20 5to 40 cm] long, glabrous below, villous above, lax, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescnece with erect, ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, shortly and sparsely pilose, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Spiranthes uliginosa Barb.Rodr. 1877; Spiranthes uliginosa var. robusta Cogn. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II !3-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II !3-43 Orchidaceae Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 10 1998 photo fide;

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