Mesadenella variegata D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001
TYPE Drawing by © Alcantara, D.E.Benn. & Christenson
Common Name The Varigated Mesadenella
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Peru in wet cloud forests at elevations of 3000 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial without a stem and a rosette of oblanceolate, acute, green spotted and blotched with white, long petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, covered by clasping, tubular, imbricating, lanceolate, acute bracts, to 18" [45 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, subequal in length to the ovary floral bracts and carrying tubular flowers with dark rose sepals, petals white tinted with rose, the lip opaque white with hyaline borders, the column white and the anther maroon with a darker midvein.
"Similar to !Mesadenella pumila in its varigated leaves but differs innthe glabrous inflorescewnce, floral bracts and sepals, aslso the oblong lip and the considerably larger rose colored flowers. In M pumila the rachis, floral bracts and the reverse of the sepals are pubescent, the lip is obovatre andf the whiote flowers are about half the size of M variegata." D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 713 D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001 drawing fide;
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