Sertifera parviflora Schltr. 1924 SECTION Sertifera Szlach & Baranow

Drawing by © Baranow 2023

Common Name The Small Flowered Sertifera

Flower Size

Found in Putumayo departement of Colombia and Chimborazo province of Ecuador at elevations of 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with fleshy, flexuous, pubescent roots giving rise to an erect, rigid, unbranched, leafy above stems carrying ovate-lanceolat to elliptic-lanceolate rather rigid, acute, sessile below leaves into the adpressed, imbricating, arpophyllaceous sheaths that blooms in the summer on an axillary, arcuate, compressed, peduncle compressed, 1.8 to 2.2" [4.5 to 5.5 cm] long, subcapitate, densely successively few, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying subglobose, glabrous, rose-purple flowers.

Distinguished by the lip deoid of a basal callus and instead a pair of longitudinal folds running to the lip base.Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;

Orquídea (Méx.) 12(2) 296 1992 as Epidendrum lehmannianum;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo/drawing good;

Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing/photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:195 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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