Sarcoglottis homalogastra (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr.1920

Plant and Flowers Photos by Hisanori Takeuchi and his Orchids of the World Website

Part Shade Warm to Cool

Common Name The Smooth Bellied Sarcoglottis [refers to the sepals not having hair on the outside]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Argentina as a medium sized, warm to cool growing almost leafless at blooming terrestrial orchid with an erect, thick stem almost completely enveloped by the inferior , retusiusiculate bracts and the superior, with almost lanceolate, recurved, unequally retusiusculate apice bracts that blooms on an erect densely many flowered cylindric inflorescence with non resupinate flowers and densely pilose ovaries, pedicels and the underside of the lip.

Synonyms Gyrostachys homalogastra (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Kuntze 1891; *Spiranthes homalogastra Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as Spiranthes homalogastra; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide

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