Selenipedium steyermarkii Foldats 1961
Photo by G.C.K. Dunsterville Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
Drawing by © Dunsterville
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Common Name Steyermark's Selenipedium [American Botanist in Venezuela 20th cent]
Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela in cloud forests in sandy soil amongst rocks and fairly open scrubby trees on steep slopes at elevations of 800 to 1800 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an elongated, slender stem carrying lanceolate-linear, plicate, acute leaves that blooms on a terminal, short to 10" [to 25 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence that are very short lived and have inflated floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 22: 253 Foldats 1961
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing good;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing good;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 11 1980 photo/drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 45 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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