Sarcoglottis viscosa Szlach. & Rutk. 1997

TYPE Drawing by © Carnevali & I.Ramírez and Novon 3: 123 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993

Common Name The Sticky Sarcoglottis Glandular Sarcoglottis [Original Collector of the type]

Flower Size .28" [7 mm]

Found in the Federal District of Brazil at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 4 total, 2 basal, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute and the 2 above cauline, subsessile, erect, slightly arcuate apically, narrowing into a relatively wide, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, peduncle densely glandular from the base, sticky in the upper part, provided with 3 to 4 cauline herbaceous, cup-like, acuminate, thick, densely, sticky glandular externally, longer than the internodes sheathing bracts, rachis 4.2" [10.5 cm] long, multilateral, densely to 12 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, thick, dense, sticky glandular externally, 5 nerved, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather large, adnate to the axis in the lower half flowers.

" The new species resembles Sarcoglottis fasciculata by its habit and S. biflora in the flowers. The most characteristic features of the species are the sticky glandules on the stem, cauline and floral bracts and on the flowers." Szlach. & Rutk. 1997

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Bot. Fenn. 34: 275 Szlach. & Rutk. 1997

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