Gomphichis adnata (Ridl.) Schltr. 1919
Photos by © Mark Whitten, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Another Orchid Colombian Origen
Photo by © Robinson Galindo,
Plant in situ and Inflorescence
Photos by © Francisco Morales
Photo by © InBio
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay 1961
THROUGH EARLY
Common Name The Grown Upon Gomphichis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Darien province of Panama, Boyaca, Cundinamarca and Huila departments of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests and on tepui summits at elevations around 1420 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a rosette of ascending, narrowly elliptic, acute, becoming conduplicate below leaves that blooms in the summer through early winter on an erect, stout, pubescent, enveloped almost completely by imbricating, acuminate, triangular sheathing bracts, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, densely pubescent, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to G alba but G adnata is distinguished by the linear-lanceoalte to lanceolate, longer than the ovary floral bracts. G alba has ovate to elliptic-ovate, shorter than the ovary to almost as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Gomphichis costaricensis (Schltr.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934; Gomphichis merzii Senghas 1994; Stenoptera adnata Ridl.1887; Stenoptera costaricensis Schltr. 1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Timehri 5: 205 Ridley 1886 as Stenoptera adnata
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 375 Schlechter 1918 as Stenoptera costaricensis
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 51 Schlechter 1919
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3: 37 Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934 as Gomphichis costaricensis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 142 Hoehne 1945
The Orchids of Panama: 39 L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Stenoptera costaricensis;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing ok;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated vol 2: 162 Dunsterville and Garay 1961 as G viscosa
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as G costaricensis drawing ok;
Orchidee (Hamburg), Suppl. 2: 26 Senghas 1994 as Gomphichis merzii
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as G costaricensis drawing ok;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as G merzii photo good;
Flora of the Venzuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Flora of the Venzuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as G costaricensis;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchiideae Part 2 Vanilloideae Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 2 Hammell, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
Plant Syst Evol 301: 61. Nowak, S., Szlachetko, D.L., Mytnik-Ejsmont, J. et al. 2014 ;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as G costaricensis photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 62 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 74 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as G costaricensis drawing fide
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