!Mesadenella cuspidata ( Lindl. ) Garay 1978 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium
Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Alejandro Taborda ©
Common Name The Three-Pointed Mesadenella
Flower Size .2" [6 mm]
Found in Peru, southeastern Brazil and to Missiones Argentina in moist forests at lower elevations of 400 to 1000 meters as miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a short stem and a basal rosette of oblanceolate, acuminate, succulent, medium green sometimes with white spots, decurrent to the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, slender, red brown, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped basally by 6 to 8, triangular, basally clasping, acute bracts and long-hirsute, as long as the ovaries and extending to the middle of the dorsal sepal floral bracts
Synonyms Cyclopogon albopunctatus Barb.Rodr. 1882; Cyclopogon cuspidatus [Lindl.] Schltr. 1920; Gyrostachys cuspidata Kuntze 1891; Mesadenella esmeraldae (Linden & Rchb.f.) Pabst & Garay 1953; Mesadenella margaritifera (Linden & Rchb.f.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Serapias pumila Vell. 1831; *Spiranthes cuspidata Lindl. 1840; Spiranthes esmeraldae Linden & Rchb.f. 1862; Spiranthes margaritifera Linden & Rchb.f. 1866; Stenorrhynchos esmeraldae (Linden & Rchb.f.) Cogn. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as Spiranthes esmeralda drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 165 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 326 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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