Gomphichis crassilabia Garay 1978

Photo by © Karl Senghas The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Photo by © Karl Senghas The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Thick Lipped Gomphichis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Boyaca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia, Carchi and Napo province of Ecuador in high montane grasslands at elevations around 3550 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with several, lanceolate-oblong, acute with imbricating vaginate bases, at first basal, then cauline, decreasing in size towards the apex leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, stout, cylindric, to 30" [to 75 cm] long, rachis 4" [10 cm] long, obtuse, pubescent, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-oblong, acute to abruptly acuminate, ciliate margined, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

The species is characterized by the relatively long, linear-lanceolate leaves and very flesh, entire lip. A similar species is Gomphichis carlos-parrae but its gynostemium has very distinct tufted hairs, which are absent in C crassilabia." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 498 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000;

Plant Syst Evol 301: 61. Nowak, S., Szlachetko, D.L., Mytnik-Ejsmont, J. et al. 2015

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 84 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 85 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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