Gomphichis plantaginifolia C.Schweinf. 1944
Plant and Inflorescence in situ
Photos by © Andgo and The I Naturalist Website
Drawing by © Pastorelli, Bennett & Christenson
EARLY
Common Name The Plantago-Like Leaf Gomphichis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Peru and Bolivia in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2300 to 3200 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, basally clasping into the petiolate base leves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, long-pedunculate, peduncle with 6 or more subremote, clasping, tubular, lanceolte, acute bracts, to 36" [90 cm] long, spicate, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, concave, ciliolate, pubescent dorsally, longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying flowers with a crystaline pubescence externally, a green dorsal sepal, the laterals, petals and lip white, the column green and the anther yellow or brown.
Distinguished from others in the genus by the obvious cauline leaves, the densely flowered rachis, ciliolate floral segments and the sigmoid column.
Synonyms Gomphichis plantaginea (Schltr.) Schltr. 1922; *Stenoptera plantaginea Schltr 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 446 Schlechter 1912 as Stenoptera plantaginea
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Stenoptera plataginea;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 60 Schlechter 1922 as Gomphichis plantaginea
*Bot. Mus. Leafl. 11: 217 C Schweinfurth 1944
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 664 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide
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