Hapalorchis trilobata Schltr. 1920
TYPE Photo by © Sebastain Viera Uribe and Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
Common Name The Three Lobed Hapalorchis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in montane forests at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with fasciculate, fusiform-thickened, villous tubers giving rise to about 3 to 4, spreading, ovate, subacuminate, basally rounded into the glabrous, canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, thin, rachis to 1" [2.5 cm] long, secund, sublaxly 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter says this species is very distinctive in its 3 lobed lip with an oblong-ligulate epichile that is almost twice longer than wide and obtuse.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 65 Colombia Schlechter 1920;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: taf 21 #76 Figuren Atlas Schlechter 1929 drawing fide;
Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 142 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 143 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide;
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