Photo by © Modesto Zarate B. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Dodson & Vasquez

Common Name Luer's Solencentrum [American Physician and Pleurothallidinae expert current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 2600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal, ovate, margins undulate margins, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the green, sulcate, 2" [5 cm] long-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, terete, glabrous, peduncle 5" [12.5 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4, foliar sheathing bracts reducing in size towards the apex, rachis 3" [7.5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, clear green, fragrant flowers.

"Distinguished by the elongate column with the divaricately branched petals and lip mounted at its apex just next to the anther and stigma and the trullate lip with a spur longer than the column." Dodson & Vasquez 1989

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 300 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 drawing fide;

The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;

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