Sauroglossum dromadum Szlach. 1995

Drawing by © Szlachetko and Brittonia 47: 145 Szlach 1995

Common Name The Camel Hump Sauroglossum [refers to the hump-backed ovary]

Flower Size

Found in Ancash department of Peru at elevations of 3050 to 3100 meters as a medium suized, cold growing terrestrial with clustered fleshy roots giving rise to an erect, delicate, sparsely glandular in the upper half stem carrying 2 to 3, clustered at the base, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle [36 to 38 cm] long, provided with 7 to 8, more or less cup-like, acuminate, herbaceous, the lower glabrous, the middle and upper sparsely glandular, all shorter than internodes, not reaching the inflorescence base, cauline sheathing bracts, rachis [14 to 17 cm] long, laxly 15 to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, thin, in the basal part sparsely glandular, 3-nerved, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with densely glandular externally sepals and a sessile lip.

" This species appears to be related to Sauroglossum schweinfurthianum , from which it differs by the lax, elongate inflorescence, the hump-backed ovary, the perianth tube set perpendicularly on the ovary, and by the lip with an especially thick, fleshy crest along the midnerve and a cochleate base and apex of the hypochile."

Synonyms Schidorhynchos distans (Lindl. ex Garay) Szlach. 1993

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Brittonia 47: 143 Szlach 1995

Brittonia 47: 144 Szlach 1995 Drawing fide

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