Gomphichis renziana Szlach., S.Nowak & Paluch. 2013

TYPE Drawing © by S.Nowak & Szlach

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Common Name Renz's Gomphichis [Swiss Botanist and Collector of the type1907 - 1999]

Flower Size

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia at elevations around 3250 meters as a miniature to just small sized, sized, cold growing terrestrial with 4, basal, rosulate, sessile, linear-lanceolate to linear, acute, leaves that blooms in the later fall on an erect, terminal, very delicate, peduncle 4.42" [11.5 cm] long, glabrous below, glandular above stem enveloped in the upper part by 5 cauline sheathing bracts, rachis .8 to 1.4" [2 to 3.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolAte, acute, densely glandular, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very small flowers with a densely pubescent on the dorsal apex to the lip.

" Gomphichis crassilabia and Gomphichis valida are both related to G renziana but it differs from both by having a dense pubescence on the dorsal apex of the lip and oblong and rounded apically petals. G renziana appears to be one of the smallest representatives of the genus." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Bot. Fenn. 50: 320 Szlach., S.Nowak & Paluch. 2013;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 82 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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