Mesadenella longipetiolata Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko and Kolanowska 2014

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Common Name The Long-Petiole Mesadenella [refers to the long leaf petiole]

Flower Size

Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations of 1050 to 1150 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with a basal rosette of 3, elliptic to obovate, acute, narrowing below into the long petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, erect, glandular, peduncle 9.6" [24 cm] long, provided with 4 sheathing bracts, rachis 5.6" [14 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.

"Similar to M angustisegmenta and M peruviana by their narrow segments of the flowers but it is easily separable from both entities by the basal lip auricles that are joined with the lip claw and and the keel od the middle lip vein. The lip is linear at the base and somewhat expanded above." Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Pl. Biosystems 148: 996 Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 210 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide;

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