Beloglottis hameri Garay 1981

Photo by © Fritz Hamer and

another flower? Seems too white

Photo by © R Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Drawing

Drawing by © Fritz Hamer and

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Common Name Hamer's Beloglottis [Fritz Hamer German Orchid Enthusiast and Collector in South America 1912 to 2004]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with basal, elliptic, subacuminate, gradually narrowing below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous below pubescent above, somewhat purple, to 10" [25 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate,acuminate, slightly shporeter tha the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers with white apices and white petals with a green central, horizontal nerve.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3: 56 [Garay] Hamer 1981;

Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3: 57 [Garay] Hamer 1981drawing good

Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3: 57 [Garay] Hamer 1981 photo fide;

Selbyana Vol 10: 33-4 Orchids of Central America: Hamer 1988 drawings fide;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hamel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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