Sauroglossum organense Szlach. 1995

Drawing by © Szlachetko and Brittonia 47: 145 Szlach 1995

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Organ Mountains Sauroglossum

Flower Size

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, delicate to relatively stout, sparsely glandular in the upper half or below the inflorescence stem and carrying 3, gathered in a basal rosette, oblanceolate to broadly to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, densely glandular, peduncle 10 to 14.6" [25 to 36 cm] long, provided with 5, acute, herbaceous, glabrous, remote, upper longer, lower shorter than the internodes, cauline sheathing bracts rachis 4.8 to 6.4" [12 to 16 cm] long, laxly 15 to 22 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, hyaline margins, almost glabrous, lopnger than the ovary floral bracts and carrying tubular flowers with a shallow, subsessile, sac-like basal spur.

"Sauroglossum organense is related to Sauroglossum elatum and Buchtienia nitida. It differs from both of these species by having nearly glabrous flowers and floral bracts, lax and subsecund inflorescences, and smaller, long- and narrow-petiolate leaves. S organense also has shorter and wider floral parts than S elatum

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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Brittonia 47: 144 Szlach 1995 Brittonia 47: 145 Szlach 1995 Drawing fide

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