Sarcoglottis uliginosa Barb.Rodr. 1877
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Drawing by © Cogniaux
MID 
Common Name The Swamp Living Sarcoglottis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Paraguay, Minas Gerais states of Brazil and Misiones and Corrientes departments of Argentina in swampy areas as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with numerous, basal, rosulate, erect, subsessile, oblong-lanceolate to spathulate, obtuse to slightly acute, fleshy, clear green, concave, attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, thin, peduncle 5 to 13" [12.5 to 32.5 cm] long, enveloped by 2 to 3, submembraneous, slightly ventricose, pale green, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent sheathing bracts, rachis 3" [7.5 cm] long, glabrous below, villous above, lax, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with erect, ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, shortly and sparsely pilose, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers.
Schlechter stated that this species is always separable from Sarcoglottis biflora by the less noticable, more erect, narrower and more spathulate leaves. In addition the flowers are usually smaller than in S biflora and characterized by the nonundulate, lower margin of the lateral sepals that are also wider towards the apex. The apical lobe of the labellum is smaller.
Synonyms Spiranthes uliginosa Barb.Rodr. 1877; Spiranthes uliginosa var. robusta Cogn. 1895
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 190 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Spiranthes uliginosa
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1(index): x Barb Rodr. 1877
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 216 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes uliginosa
Fl. Bras. 3(4): Tab 49 fig 1 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes uliginosa drawing fide
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 217 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes uliginosa var. robusta
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 326 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 179 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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