Gomphichis bogotensis Renz 1948
Photo/R Medina- Drawing by © Bobbi Angel/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
photo by © Carlos Uribe Velez
Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz
Common Name or Meaning The Bogota Gomphichis [The Capital of Colombia]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cundianmarca department of Colombia and Merida and Tachira states of Venezuela in meadows and open, grassy slopes at elevations of 2500 to 3300 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with fasciculate, fleshy roots giving rise to 3 to 6, more or less basal, membraneous, oblong to oblanceolate, acute, attenuate into the base leaves that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on a terminal, glabrous below pubescent above, peduncle to 22" [55 cm] long, enveloped by 4 tubular, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, densely pilose, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, externally glandular-pilose, longer than the ovary floral bracts carrying small, green flowers.
"G bogotensis is similar to a group of species that have short leaves, usually shorter than 1/2 the stem length. However G bogotaensis can be separated by the petals with shortly cilate to glabrous margins and a lip longer than the sepals, so that they are protruding from the flowers." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Candollea 11: 247 Renz 1948
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 drawing good;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing fide/photo good;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 63 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 54 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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