Gomphichis longifolia (Rolfe) Schltr. 1922
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawing by © Vasquez & Dodson
Common Name The Long Leaved Gomphichis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 3000 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with fasiculate, fleshy, hairy roots with a rosette of basal, 12" + [30 cm] + long , lanceolate, acute, basally conduplicate into the channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, erect, to 32" [80 cm] long, glabrous, racemose, peduncle enveloped by loose, acuminate sheaths, rachis pyramidical, pulverulent, many flowered inflorescence with pulverulent, longer to as long as the flowers floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers
Distinguished by its elongate leaves
Synonyms *Stenoptera longifolia Rolfe 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 4: 449 Rolfe 1907 as Stenoptera longifolia
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 60 Schlechter 1922
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 234 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide;
Plant Syst Evol 301: 61. Nowak, S., Szlachetko, D.L., Mytnik-Ejsmont, J. et al 2015; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
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