Beloglottis subpandurata (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982

TYPE Drawing by © Ames and C Schweinfurth

Common Name The Almost Lute Shaped Beloglottis

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama shady woods at elevtions below 400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing terrestrial with large, fleshy, fasciculate, tomentose roots giving rise to a basal rosette of 5 or so, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 4.28" [10.7 cm] long, provided and mostly concealed by 8, imbricating, loose, scarious, tubular below, free and acuminate, above, rachis to 2.56" [to 6.4 cm] long, glandular-pubescent, loose below, dense above, several flowered inflorescence with longer than the ovary below, equal to shorter than the ovary above floral bracts.

Synonyms *Spiranthes subpandurata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925