Ligeophila rosea (Lindl.) Garay 1977

Inflorescence Photos by © Ricardo Luis Penz and his Orchid Website

Common Name The Rose-Colored Ligeophila

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Surinam?, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina at elevations of 210 to 700 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, stout, leafy stem glabrous below and densely pubescent above the leaves carrying elliptic-lanceolate to oval-lanceolate, acute to acuminategradually tapering below into the short, broad petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, elongate, 10" [25cm] long, cylindric, many flowered inflorescence carrying successively opening flowers.

Synonyms Erythrodes bifalcis (Lindl.) Ames 1922; Erythrodes rosea (Lindl.) Ames 1922; Erythrodes valida (Rolfe) Ames 1922; Microchilus bifalcis (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852; Microchilus roseus (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852; Physurus bifalcis Lindl. 1840; * Physurus roseus Lindl. 1840; Physurus validus Rolfe 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes bifalcis; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes valida; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes rosea drawing fide;

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