Selenipedium buenaventurae (Szlach. & Kolan.) P.J.Cribb 2017

TYPE Drawing © by N Oledrzynska

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Common Name The Buenaventura Selenipidum [refers to its location]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm] wide

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in wet montane forests at elevations of 60 to 90 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with an elongate, pubescent stem carrying longly acuminate, basally cuneate-oblong, plicate, narrowly elliptic leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, densely pubescent, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with a lanceolate, acute floral bract.

"Differs from Selenipidium chica in the stalked staminode, broadly ovate-suborbicular above the filiment, apex obtuse, base truncate; dorsal sepal elliptic-ovate; sysepal as wide as but longer than the dorsal one; petals ovate-lanceolate." Szlach & Kolan. 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Syst. Bot. 41: 144 Szlach. & Kolan 2016 drawing fide;

*Slipper Orchids Trop. Amer.: 54 P J Cribb 2017

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 45 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;

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