Sarcoglottis ventricosa ( Vell. ) Hoehne 1952 Photo by © Gustavo Righelato

Another View Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Plant in situ in Argentina

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Alejandro Taborda ©

Inflorescence Photo by © Ricardo Luis Penz and his Orchid Website

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Common Name The Thick Bellied Sarcoglottis [probably refers to the ovary]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in southeastern Brazil and to Missiones Argentina as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with 3 to 8, thin, lustrous, gradually narrowing below into the canaliculate, pseudopetiolate base leaves that are almost withered as it blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, a dense, club-shaped, to 32" [80 cm] long, 17 to 35 flowered inflorescence with the flowers covered by white hairs and 8 to 12 brown sheaths

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 ; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as S rufescens; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as S rufescens drawing fide; Icongoraphia de Orchidaceae do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as S rufescens drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 4 2008 photo;

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