Hapalorchis pumila (C.Schweinf.) Garay 1978
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Szlachetko etal 2005
TYPE Drawing by © C Schweinfurth
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Common Name The Dwarf Hapalorchis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1000 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 7, fasciculate, slender, tuberous, pubescent roots giving rise to 5 to 6, gathered in a basal rosette, ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacute, rounded to subcuneate below into the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect to arcuate, peduncle 4 to 5.6" [10 to 14 cm] long, very delicate, wiry, , densely glandular, provided with 4 to 6, tubular, lanceolate, acuminate, semiscarious, very thin, delicate, semi-transparent, glabrous sheathing bracts, rachis 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] long, a secund, loosely 2 to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, semiscarious, thin, glabrous, single veined, twice or more longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, resupinate, tubular, white flowers.
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Synonyms Spiranthes lankesteri Standl. & L.O.Williams 1952; *Spiranthes pumila C.Schweinf. 1941
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 229 C Schweinfurth 1941 as Spiranthes pumila
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 249 pl VI #4-5 C Schweinfurth 1941 as Spiranthes pumila drawing fide
Ceiba 3: 110 Standl. & L.O.Williams 1952 as Spiranthes lankesteri
*Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 28 Garay 1978;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide;
Manual de Plants de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 137 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide;
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