Gomphichis viscosa (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1919
Photo by Rodrigo Escobar
Drawing by Barbosa Rodriguez
Common Name or Meaning The Sticky Gomphichis
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1800 to 3800 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with more or less robust, glabrous below, densely glandular pubescent above stems enveloped by several large tubular, acute sheaths and carrying mostly basal to sub basal, rosulate, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, acute to short-acuminate, gradually elongating petiolate base lower leaves and sessile, mostly bract-like upper leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, rachis to 9.4" [23 cm] long, laxly, manyt flowered inflorescence with triangular to ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulent to villose, close to twice as long as the ovary floral bracts that are slightly shorter than the flowers with the sepals and to a lesser degree the petals covered in fine white hairs covering the basal third of the outer surface.
Distinguished by the laxly flowered inflorescence, the almost glabrous sepals
Synonyms Gomphichis psilosepala Renz 1948; *Stenoptera viscosa Rchb.f. 1856
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia 4: 211 Rchb.f 1856 as Stenoptera viscosa;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 51 Schlechter 1919
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 143 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 80 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Candollea 11: 245 Renz 1948 asGomphichis psilosepala
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru Fieldiana Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 drawing good;P> Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;
