Mesadenella angustisegmenta Garay 1980 publ. 1982

Drawings by © A Maciagowska/ 2014

Part sunWarm LATE Fall winter

Common Name The Narrow Segment Mesadenella [refers to the floral parts]

Flower Size

Found in Zulia state of Venezuela at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with fasciculate, fleshy, pubescent roots giovbing rise to numerous, basal, obliquely ovate-elliptic, acute to subacuminate, canaliculate below into the distinctly, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, delicate, peduncle to 6" [15 cm] long, provided with several sheathing bracts, sparsely glandular, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, loosely spicate, to 30 flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, decreasing in size upwards, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, rather sparsely externally pubescent, small, greenish flowers

"This species has the narrowest floral segments of all the species in the genus, its petals hardly reach .04" [1 mm] in width and the sepals less than .048" [1.2 mm]." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Phytologia 25: 460 L O Williams 1973 as Spiranthes petenensis

Phytologia 26: 435 L O Williams 1973 as Spiranthes umbraticola

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 285 Garay 1980 publ. 1982

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 211 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 212 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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