Sertifera albiflora Szlach. Kolan. Medina Tr 2023 SECTION Sertifera Szlach & Baranow
Drawing by © N Oledrzynska
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Common Name The White Flowered Sertifera
Flower Size
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia among shrubs in humid areas at elevations of 1600 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with fleshy, flexuous, pubescent roots giving rise to an erect, rigid, unbranched, leafy above stems carrying plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, sessile below leaves on densely reddish glandular sheaths that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a lateral, 1.6" [4 cm] long, subcapitate, densely successively few, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with subulate-lanceolate, acute, green, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying globose , pure white flowers or with the sepals white-greenish.
Distinguished by being the only species in the genus with white flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 489 Kraenzl. 1899 as Diothonea lehmanniana
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:199 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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