Gomphichis goodyeroides Lindl. 1840
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Goodyera Like Gomphichis
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Colombia, Canar, Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Amazonas department of Peru in shrubby cloud forests and paramo at elevations of 2400 to 3650 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal, lanceolate, acute, tapering below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 32.2" [85 cm] long, several sheathed, rachis 2.88" [7.2 cm] long, cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, as long as to longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"G goodyeroides is distinguished by the indiistinctly 3 lobed, ovate-lanceolate lip and almost glabreous, sparsely pubescent sepals."
Synonyms Stenoptera goodyeroides Rchb.f. 1856
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 447 Lindley 1840
Bonplandia (Hannover) 4: 211 Rchb.f 1856 as Stenoptera goodyeroides
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225 [1] Orchidaceae Garay 1979;
Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
