Pteroglossa roseoalba (Rchb.f.) Salazar & M.W.Chase 2002
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Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer
Photo by © Leon Glicenstein
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Pink-White Pteroglossa
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Brazil, at the forest border, in shady places around 900 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing, deciduous leafed terrestrial with 3 to 6, in a basal rosette, patent to erect-patent, elliptical, acute to rounded and apiculate, deeply canaliculate, glabrous dark green leaves with white spotted leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, terete, glabrous, 6" to 16" [15 to 40 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence almost completely enveloped by several loose, inflated, acuminate bracts and floral bracts beneath each flower.
This attractice species can be separated from others by the larde showy white flowers often with pink suffusiona with a long, cylindrical, oendent spur and a long labellum with entire margins." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Callistanthos roseoalbus (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 2008; Callistanthos travassosii (Rolfe) Szlach. 2008; Centrogenium roseoalbum (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1919; Eltroplectris roseoalba (Rchb. f.) Hamer & Garay 1974; Eltroplectris travassosii (Rolfe) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Pelexia roseoalba Rchb. f. 1854; Pelexia travassosii Rolfe 1892; Pteroglossa travassosii (Rolfe) Salazar & M.W.Chase 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
Bonplandia 2: 11. 1854 as Pelexia roseoalba;
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 11: 330 Rolfe 1892 as Pelexia travassosii
Flora Brasilense Vol 3 pt 4: 156 Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 54 Schlechter 1919 as Centrogenium roseoalbum Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 453 Schlechter 1920 as Centrogenium roseoalbum Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 283 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Centrogenium roseo-album; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43 Orchidaceae: tab 151 Illustrations Hoehne 1945 as Centrogenium roseo-album drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Centrogenium roseo-album drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Centrogenium roeoalbum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Centrogenium roseoalbum drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Centrogenium roseoalbum drawing fide; Las Orquídeas de El Salvador Vol 1: 160 Hamer & Garay 1974 as Eltroplectris roseoalba Las Orquídeas de El Salvador Vol 1: 161. Hamer & Garay 1974 drawing Las Orquídeas de El Salvador Vol 1: Lamina 13 fig 2 Hamer & Garay 1974 as Eltroplectris roseoalba photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Centrogenium roseo-album photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 318 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Eltroplectris ROSEOALBA Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 318 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Eltroplectris travassosii Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America: 152 Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 214 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as E travassosii not drawing =m E brachycentron; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 drawing/photo fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; * Lindleyana 17: 176 Salazar & M.W.Chase 2002 Lindleyana 17: 176 Salazar & M.W.Chase 2002 as Pteroglossa travassosii The Organ Mountain Range, Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide; Phylogeny Taxon. Subtr. Spiranthinae Stenorrhynchidinae Cyclopogoninae Centr. S. Amer.: 165 Szlach 2008 as Callistanthos roseoalbus Phylogeny Taxon. Subtr. Spiranthinae Stenorrhynchidinae Cyclopogoninae Centr. S. Amer.: 166 Szlach 2008 as Callistanthos travassosii AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Pteroglossa roseoalba photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #8 2017 jm photo fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 236 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Callistanthos roseoalbus Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 237 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Callistanthos roseoalbus drawing fide
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;
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