Stenoptera montana C.Schweinf. 1941

TYPE Drawing © by Schweinfurth

Common Name The Mountain Growing Stenoptera

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in Huanuco department of Peru in "Bunch Grass uplands" at elevations around 2760 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, rather slender, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 5 clustered towards the base in a rosette, oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms on a erect, peduncle to 15.4" [38.5 cm] long, rachis to 5" [12.5 cm] long, slender cylindrical, loosely to subdensely several to commonly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, scarious, longer than the pubescent ovary floral bracts and carrying small green flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 220 Schweinfurth 1941

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 drawing fide;

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