!Mesadenella pumila (Vell.) Campacci 2021
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Photos by Alejandro Taborda ©
Drawings by © Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Common Name The Small Mesadenella
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Peru, southeastern Brazil and Missiones Argentina in moist forests at elevations of 400 to 1000 meters as miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a short stem and a basal rosette of oblanceolate, acuminate, succulent, medium green sometimes with white spots, decurrent to the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, slender, red brown, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped basally by 6 to 8, triangular, basally clasping, acute bracts and long-hirsute, as long as the ovaries and extending to the middle of the dorsal sepal floral bracts.
"Similar to Mesadenella tonduzii but differs in the form of the basal lip auricles which are retrorse, slenderly conical and incurved. In M tonduzii they are horn-like."
Synonyms Cyclopogon albopunctatus Barb.Rodr. 1882; Cyclopogon cuspidatus [Lindl.] Schltr. 1920; Gyrostachys cuspidata Kuntze 1891; Habenaria margaritacea B.S.Williams 1869; Liparis beckeri R.J.V.Alves 1991; Mesadenella cuspidata (Lindl.) Garay 1978; Mesadenella esmeraldae (Linden & Rchb.f.) Pabst & Garay 1953; Mesadenella margaritifera (Linden & Rchb.f.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Serapias pumila Vell. 1831; Spiranthes cuspidata Lindl. 1840; Spiranthes esmeraldae Linden & Rchb.f. 1862; Spiranthes margaritifera Linden & Rchb.f. 1866; Stenorrhynchos esmeraldae (Linden & Rchb.f.) Cogn. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 55 Vell. 1831
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 471 Lindley 1840as Spiranthes cuspidata
Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 18: 36 Linden & Rchb.f 1862 as Spiranthes esmeraldae
Gard. Chron. 1866: 219 Linden & Rchb.f 1866 as Spiranthes margaritifera
Nursery Cat. (B.S.Williams) 1869(Spring): 17 B S Williams 1869 as Habenaria margaritacea
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as Spiranthes esmeralda drawing fide;
Refugium Botanicum: tab 121 Reichenbach 1872 as Spiranthes esmeralda
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 281 Barb Rodr. 1882 as Cyclopogon albopunctatus
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys cuspidata
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 170 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos esmeraldae
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 387 Schlechter 1920 as Cyclopogon cuspidatus
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 198 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Cyclopogon cuspidata;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 264 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Stenorrhynchus esmeraldae;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: tab 139 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Stenorrhynchus esmeraldae drawing fide;
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 12: 208 Pabst & Garay 1953 as Mesadenella esmeraldae
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes esmeraldae drawing good;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as M esmeraldae;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as M esmeraldae drawing ok;
Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 238 Garay 1978 as Mesadenella cuspidata drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 165 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 335 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Mesadenella margaritifera
Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 26: 172 R J V Alves 1991 as Liparis beckeri;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 326 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide;
100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo hmm;
*Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 17: 712 Campacci 2021
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 212 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 213 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide
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