Mesadenella peruviana Garay 1980 publ. 1982

TYPE Collection Sheet by © Garay

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Common Name The Peruvina Mesadenella

Flower Size

Found in Huanuco department of Peru on steep open cliffs along riversat elevations around 720 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial orchid with a basal rosette of several, obovate-oblanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the cuneate base leaves that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, erect, provided with several brown sheathing bracts, 12" [30 cm] long overall, rachis brown, laxly several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying tubular, inconspicuous, densely glandular outside, yellow-brown flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 286 Garay 1980 publ. 1982

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