Photo by © Luis Valenzuela and Lankesteriana 20: 343 Damian & Mitidieri 2020

"A" S. oblongum Comparison with "B" S. lueri

TYPE Drawing

Photos TYPE Drawing by © Dodson & Vasquez

EARLIER

Common Name The Oblong Solencentrum [refers to the lip]

Flower Size 1.28" [3.2 cm]

Found in Cusco department of Peru at elevations of 2200 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 8, in a basal rosette, horizontal, elliptic, acumoinate, marrgins entire, basally symetrical and broadly cuneate below into the 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the earlier summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle, green, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, provided wioth a basal, ovate,a cuminate, glabrous sheathing bract and with 3 more above, just below the flowers, rachis .08 to 2.8" [2 to 7 cm] long, 6 to 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 3 veined, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flwoers with greenish sepals, white petals and a reenish lip with white calli..

"Similar to Solenocentrum lueri , differing in its oblong, sub-pandurate labellum (vs. triangular to sagittate) with rounded base (vs. sagittate), glabrous margins (vs. densely ciliate) and slender oblong calli (vs. broadly ovate).

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Lankesteriana 20: 340 Damian & Mitidieri 2020 photos/type drawing fide

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