Sarcoglottis pauciflora (Kuntze) Schltr. 1920
Photo courtesy of Eduoard Faria
Drawing by Rolando Jiménez Machorro and Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002
Common Name or Meaning The Few Flowered Sarcoglottis
Flower Size 1 to 1.2” [2.5 to 3 cm] long
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras at elevations around 1300 to 2100 meters on hillsides, grassy openings in montane oak/pine forests as a medium sized, cool to just cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a stout, short stem with no leaves at flowering, with several, basal, petiolate, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the fall and winter with out leaves on an erect, terminal, greenish white, peduncle 5.6 to 12.4" [14 to 31 cm] long, densely lanose-glandular, provided with 5 to 8, lower ones as long as the internodes, glabrous, upper ones generally shorter, 3.8 to 6" [9.5 to 15 cm] long, loosely 2 to 3 rarely 6 flowered, inflorescence with scarious, elliptic-lanceolate, long pointed, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and large, erect flowers that smell strongly of lemon.
"The labellum is deeply sagittate, then tongue-shaped, gradulaly widening towards the front and finally extending into a convex, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse anterior lobe. Two keels run from the middle of the labellum to the base of the anterior lobe." Schlecher
Synonyms *Gyrostachys pauciflora Kuntze 1891; Sarcoglottis corymbosa Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Spiranthes pauciflora A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Spiranthes spanantha McVaugh 1985
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 32 A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 as Spiranthes pauciflora nom. illeg.
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys pauciflora
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 418 Schlechter 1920
Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes pauciflora drawing/photo fide;
Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 353 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Sarcoglottis corymbosa nom. superfl.
Flora Novo-Galiciana Vol 16: 339 McVaugh 1985 as Spiranthes spanantha;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 as Sarcoglottis corymbosa photo fide;
Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide;
The Orchids of Mexico Hagsater 2005;
The Orchids Of Mexico Digital Catalog Hagsater 2007;
Revista Guatemalensis #1 2012 drawing fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae: 75 MBG UNAM 2023 as S corymbosa
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