Veyretia sincorensis (Schltr.) Szlach. 1996

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Common Name or Meaning The Serra do Sincora Veyretia [an montane area of Bahia state of Brazil]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Bahia state of Brazil at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a single basal, straight, linear, acute, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, erect, sparsely villose, to 13.6" [to 34 cm] long, rachis 2.4" [6 cm] long, more or less aggregate at the apex, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, slightly longer than the ovary floral bract.

Closely related to Veyretia aphylla and Veyretia rupicola but differs in the bilobed, emarginate petals and the strikingly broad strongly truncated rostellum. The sepals are characteristic being sickle shaped and bent downwards and more inwards and significantly broader towards the apex.

Synonyms Sarcoglottis sincorensis (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920; *Spiranthes sincorensis Schltr. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 6: 122 Schlechter 1914 as Spiranthes sincorensis

Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 421 Schlechter 1920 as Sarcoglottis sincorensis

Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 327 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Sarcocglottis sincorensis;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1: 126 # 407 Pabst 1995 as Sarcoglottis sincorensis

* Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 862 Szlach 1996

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