Skeptrostachys arechavaletanii (Barb.Rodr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982 Photo by © Marcelo Pedron and The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul Website

Common Name Arechevaleta's Skeptrostachys [Uruguayan Botanist late 1800's] early 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in southern Brazil and Uruguay as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, rachis 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Stenorrhynchos arechavaletanii Barb.Rodr. 1907; Stenorrhynchos exaltatum Kraenzl. 1911; Stenorrhynchos lateritium Kraenzl. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1942 as Stenorrhynchos arechavaletae; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1942 as Stenorrhynchos lateritus drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Stenorrhynchos lateritus drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Stenorrhynchos arechavaletae drawing ok;

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