Gomphichis lozanoi S.Nowak & Szlach. 2014

TYPE Drawing © by S.Nowak & Szlach and Plant Syst Evol ( 301: 61. Nowak, S., Szlachetko, D.L., Mytnik-Ejsmont, J. et al. 2015

LATER EARLY

Common Name Lozano's Gomphichis [Colombian collector of type current]

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia, Cauca, Chocó, Cundinamarca and Norte de Santander departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2300 to 2900 meters as a giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 5, basal and a single cauline, linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, tapering towards the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer fall and early winter on a terminal, erect, with 4 to 7 slender, erect, delicate, glabrous below, glanular above bracts, to 48" [120 cm] long, rachis 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, cylindrical, laxly many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, somewhat oblique, pubescent margined, longer than the ovary, becoming shorter above floral bracts and carrying relatively small, externally pubescent flowers.

"Similar to Gomphichis adnata but G lozanoi has a laxly to subdensely many flowered inflorescence with the lip papillate in the center versus in G adnata the inflorescence is compact, densely flowered and the lip is pubescent in the center." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 63 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 65 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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