Gomphichis scaposa Schltr. 1920

TYPE Drawing © by Schlechter

Common Name The Shaft-Like Gomphichis

Flower Size

Found in Cesar, Norte de Santander, Santander, Cundinamarca, Antioquia, Cauca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations around 2800 meters as a giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, basal, ligulate, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, erect, terete, glabrous, apically glandular-puberulous, peduncle to 56" [140 cm] long, provided with about 8 acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis to 12" [30 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, erect-patent, slightly shorter to as long as the flowers floral bracts and carrying medium sized flowers with externally sparsely glandular sepals

"Similar and at times has been put as a synonym of Gomphichis viscosa but G scaposa has a very dense inflorescence while G viscosa has an elongated and laxly flowered inflorescence. The flower morphology is similar to Gomphichis cundinamarcae but G scaposa has obtuse sepals while G cundinamarca has acute sepals. G scaposa is one of the tallest representatives of the genus." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 55 Schlechter 1921;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: Taf 17 #60 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide;

Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 71 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 71 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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