Baskervilla asplundii (Garay) Szlach. & Kolan. 2020
Photos by Robinson Galindo Tarazona and his Flickr Orchid Website
Drawing provided by Kew Monocot list
Common Name Asplund's Baskervilla [Swedish Orchid Collector 1900's Original collector fo the species]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador at elevations around 1900 metrers as a medium sized cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 2, subbasal to cauline, ovate to elliptic, acute to acuminate, narrowing below into the 1.6" [4 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, glaberous, peduncle 34 to 36 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4, remote, glabrous sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, slightly pubescent, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.
"Easily separated from other Baskervilla by the villose lip disc and margins." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Synonyms *Cranichis asplundii Garay 1956; Ocampoa asplundii (Garay) Szlach. & Kolan. 2019; Solenocentrum asplundii (Garay) Garay 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Canad. J. Bot. 34: 248 Garay 1956 as Cranichis asplundii
Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 229 Garay 1978 as Solenocentrum asplundii
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000
PeerJ 7-e7385: 106 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 as Ocampoa asplundii
* Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 67 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
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