Mesadenella bicordata Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

TYPE Drawing of by © Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

Part Shade WarmSpring

Common Name The 2-Heart Shaped Mesadenella [refers to the double heart shaped hypochile of the lip]

Flower Size

Found in Putumayo department of Colombia at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial orchid with a basal rosette of 4, narrow, obovate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle 10" [25 cm] long, provided with 6 sheathing bracts, rachis 7.2" [18 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, densely glandular outside, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying tubular, inconspicuous, densely glandular outside flowers.

"Differs from others in the genus by the peculiar lip morphology, with a very wide obcordate hypochile, a much wider than cordate, long acuminate epichile." Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Pl. Biosystems 148: 997 Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 209 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide;

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