Sarcoglottis wernerherzogii Collantes, Edquén & Salazar 2023
Photos by © José D. Edquén/ TYPE Drawing by Benjamín Collantes and Lankesteriana 23: 625 Collantes, Edquén & Salazar 2023
Common Name Werner Herzog's Sarcoglottis [Original Collector of the type]
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Cusco department of Peru near Machu Picchu at elevations of 2050 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 4 to 6, deciduous, not present at blooming, in a basal rosette, bright green above, with 5 pale yellowish veins, the central one broader, lower suface slightly paler green, oblong-elliptic, cuneate, acuteleaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, scapose, pedencle [50 to 55 cm] long, terete, glabrous below, becoming lanuginose above, , partially enveloped bynarrowly lanceolate, semi-tubular, acute to acuminate, rachis 4 to 5.2" [10 to 13 cm] long, rather dense, simultaneously 12 to 15 flowered inflorescence with green to pale brown with reddish suffusion towards the apex, concave, slightly incurved, with involute margins, when spread-out lanceolate, acute to long-acuminate, 5 to 7-veined, sparsely papillose to shortly pubescent on the outer surface near and along the margins, glabrous otherwise, subequal to conspicuously longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"The new species is similar to eastern South American Sarcoglottis fasciculata, from which it is distinguished by inhabiting Andean montane cloud forest at 2050 to 2500 meters (vs. inhabiting Atlantic rain forest near sea level); flowering after the shedding of the leaves (vs. flowering with the leaves present); homogeneously dull greenish- to yellowish perianth segments (vs. whitish or pale green background with contrasting greenish or reddish veins); rigidly conduplicate-concave lateral sepals that, when spread out, are strongly falcate (vs. slightly concave, not rigid, obliquely lanceolate lateral sepals); strongly cymbiform hypochile that when spread out is obovate, as long as wide (vs. broadly channeled hypochile that when spread out is oblanceolate, about twice longer than wide or longer); ovate, strongly deflexed epichile provided with a central longitudinal thickening throughout its length (vs. triangular, erect or gently arcuate epichile with a thickening only at the apex); and apical anther beak truncate (vs. apical anther beak rounded)." Collantes, Edquén & Salazar 2023
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lankesteriana 23: 625 Collantes, Edquén & Salazar 2023 photos/drawing fide
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