Sarcoglottis ventricosa ( Vell. ) Hoehne 1952
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EARLY
Common Name The Thick Bellied Sarcoglottis [probably refers to the ovary]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Rio de Janiero and Minas Gerais states of Brazil and Missiones department of Argentina as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with 3 to 8, thin, lustrous, gradually narrowing below into the canaliculate, pseudo-petiolate base leaves that are almost withered as it blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle 12 to 20" [30 to 50 cm] long, provided with 8 to 12, erect to erect patent, green, somewhat distant, subfoliaceous, glabrous acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, dense, club-shaped, 17 to 35 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, glabrous, shorter than trhe ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers covered by white hairs.
Synonyms Orchis ventricosa (Vell.) Steud. 1841; Sarcoglottis rufescens Klotzsch 1842; *Serapias ventricosa Vell. 1831; Spiranthes rufescens Fisch. ex Warm. 1884
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 47 Vell. 1831 as Serapias ventricosa
Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 225 Steud. 1841 as Orchis ventricosa
Allg. Gartenzeitung 10: 107 Klotsch 1842 as Sarcoglottis rufescens
Symbolae 30: 855 Fisch. ex Warm. 1884 as Spiranthes rufescens
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 222 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes rufescens
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 320 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as S rufescens;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 173 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as S rufescens drawing fide;
Icongoraphia de Orchidaceae do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as S rufescens drawing fide;
*Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 146 Hoehne 1952
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 4: 27-29 2008 photo fide;
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