Gomphichis caucana Schltr. 1920
Photo by © la Fundacion Grupo Conserva 2020
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
EARLIER
Common Name The Cauca Gomphichis [refers to the department of Colombia where it is found]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Venezuela, Cundinamarca, Cauca, and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Azuay province of Ecuador in wet upper montane cloud forests at elevations of 2700 to 3800 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a fan of 8, basal, oblanceolate-ligulate, fleshy, acute to subacuminate, tapering towards the base leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and earlier summer on an erect, enveloped by loose-fitting, lanceolate, subacute, pubescent sheathing bracts, the lower ones may be foliaceous,16" [40 cm] long, cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, subacute, pubescent, almost twice as long as the ovary flora lbracts and carrying medium sized, greenish-white to yellowis flowers with externally glandular sepals.
G caucana is distinguished by the lanceolate to oblanceolate leaves and pubescent floral bracts and sepals.
Synonyms Gomphichis foliosa Ames 1922; Gomphichis huilaensis (Garay) H.C.Dueñas & Fern.Alonso 2007; Stenoptera huilaensis Garay 1953
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 53 Schlechter 1920;
Schedul. Orchid. 1: 1 Ames 1922 as Gomphichis foliosa
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: taf 16 Schlechter 1929 drawing good;
Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 47: 195 Garay 1953 as Stenoptera huilaensis
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1970 as G foliosa Drawing fide;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 31: 21 H.C.Dueñas & Fern. Alonso 2007 as G huilaensis
Plant Syst Evol 301: 61. Nowak, S., Szlachetko, D.L., Mytnik-Ejsmont, J. et al. 2015;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing ok/photo not = G valida;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 86 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 87 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 88 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 aS G cf caucana photo good
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