Myrosmodes cleefii Szlach., Mytnik & S.Nowak 2012

Type Drawing by © A. Krol and *Pl. Syst. Evol. Szlach., Mytnik & S.Nowak 2012

Common Name Cleef's Myrosmodes [Original Collector of Species current]

Flower Size

Found in Boyaca, Meta and Arauca department of Colombia amongst mosses in the paramo of Sumapaz at elevations of 4300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with several, held in a basal rosette, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, 7" long overall, rachis to 1.6" [4 cm] long, conical, very dense, many flowered inflorescence with flabellate from the cuneate lower part, undulate margined, erose, almost twice as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"The species is related to Myrosmodes nubigenum , but the lip is two times larger, widest in the middle, obtrullate in outline, lateral sepals cochleate with erose margins, dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic with keeled apex." Szlach., Mytnik & S.Nowak 2012

Kew now considers this one as a synonym of Myrosmodes nubigenum . I have left them separate for now pending more research.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Pl. Syst. Evol. Szlach., Mytnik & S.Nowak 2012 epublished drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 38 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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