Solenocentrum asplundii (Garay) Garay 1978

Inflorescence Photos by Robinson Galindo Tarazona and his Flickr Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Asplund's Solenocentrum [Original Collector of Species and Swedish Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect, remotely 3 to 4 sheathed above stem carrying subbasal to cauline, ovate to elliptic, acute to acuminate, petiolae base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, peduncle glabrous, rachis slightly pubescent, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary bracts.

CAUTION I have no real way of personally verifying this determination with the references available to me, so please use with caution!!!!

Synonyms *Cranichis asplundii Garay 1956

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Flora of Ecuador, #9 225 [1] Garay 1978; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000

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