Hapalorchis piesikii Szlach. & Rutk. 2009

TYPE drawing by © J. Mytnik-Ejsmont and Nordic J. Bot. 27: 214 Szlach. & Rutk. 2009

Common Name Piesiki's Hapalorchis [Polish orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size

Found in Meta department of Colombia in dense forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with fleshy, fasciculate roots giving rise to 8, gathered in a basal rosette, obliquely ovate-lanceolate to sagittate, acute to acuminate, thin, delicate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle to 6.4 to 6.8"" [16 to 17 cm] long, provided with 3, as long as the internodes, acuminate, adnate,. herbaceous, glabrous sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6" [4 cm] long, laxly 7 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, herbaceous, membraneous, more than twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small, tubular, non-resupinate, white flowers with red streaks on the petals and lip

"This species appears to be related to Hapalorchis trilobata , but differs from it in having non-resupinate flowers and a lip with dendritic nervation with an acute epichile." Szlach. & Rutk. 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Nordic J. Bot. 27: 214 Szlach. & Rutk. 2009 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 144 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Spiranthes tenuis drawing fide;

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