!Coccineorchis cernua (Lindl.) Garay 1978
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Photo by © Leon Glicenstein
Drawing by © Szlachetko etal 2005
Common Name The Nodding Coccineorchis [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cartago, Heridia and San jose provinces of Costa Rica, Chiriqui province of Panama, Santander, Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Risaralda, Valle de Cauca, Choco, and Cauca departments of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in montane, oak cloud forests at elevations of 1880 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 6 to 12, in a basal rosette, broadly ovate, bright green with a ventral nerve and 2 to 3 lateral nerves on each side, abruptly narrowing below into the pink, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, clear pink, to [33 cm] long overall, rachis to 1" [2.5 cm] long, pubescent towards the apex, few to several flowered inflorescence
"This species differs from othersd in the genus by the subcorymbose inflorescence, floral bracts shorter than the flowers and the lip widest near the middle, more or less lanceoalte in outline. It seems closely related to C dressleri." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Coccineorchis corymbosa (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920; Spiranthes coccinea Garay 1967; Spiranthes corymbosa Kraenzl. 1916; *Stenorrhynchos cernuum Lindl. 1845
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 15: 386 Lindley 1845 as Stenorrhynchos cernuum
Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 117: 17 Kraenzlin 1916 as Spiranthes corymbosa
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 434 Schlechter 1920 as Coccineorchis corymbosa
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 21: 250 Garay 1967 as Spiranthes coccinea
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as C corymbosa;
*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 519 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo hmm;
Flora of Ecuador # 76 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005 as Stennorhyncha cernua;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #5 2010 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 193 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 194 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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