Stenorrhynchos vaginatum (Kunth) Spreng. 1826
Inflorescence in situ Mt Pionono Cunidinamarca 3100 meters
Flower detail in situ Mt Pionono Cunidinamarca 3100 meters
Inflorescence and Floral bracts in situ Mt Pionono Cunidinamarca 3100 meters
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by © Karl Senghas
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Vagina Shaped Stenorrhynchos
Flower Size
Found in Venezuela, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 2700 to 3100 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal sessile or inconspicuous sheaths becoming above, short, ovate to elliptic-ovate, subobtuse to acute leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, glabrous, 1.4 to 3.4" [3.5 to 8.5 cm] long, densely few flowered inflorescence almost to completely enveloped by several, close, imbricate, elliptic, obtuse to acute, concave-ventricose bracts.
Synonyms Gyrostachys vaginata (Kunth) Kuntze 1891; *Neottia vaginata Kunth 1816; Spiranthes vaginata (Kunth) Lindl. ex B.D.Jacks.1895
References W3 Tropicos , Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as Spiranthes vaginatum drawing good;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 photos fide
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