Selenipedium aucourdianum Sambin & Chiron 2020

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Photo /TYPE Drawing by © Aurélien Sambin

Common Name Aucourd's Selenipidum [Marie Aucourd French Co-collector of the species with the first Author]

Flower Size

Found in French Guiana in near coastal forests at elevations around 40 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous stem carrying elliptic-=lanceolate, long-acuminate, sub-subulate, cuniform basally, 7 to 9 nerved, subglabrous towards the base abaxially, adaxially glabrous with glabrous margins leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a terminal, erect, densely pubescent, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with shortly oval, triangular, subacuminate with rounded apex, densely pubescent on the adaxial surface, shorter than the ovary floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Richardiana, N.S. 4: 27 Sambin & Chiron 2020 photo drawing fide

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