Myrosmodes cochleare Garay 1978
Photo by Ladislav Hoskovec © and His Botany CZ Website
Photos by Joseph Fourier © and The Fourier Alpine Flowers Flickr Photo Website
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
Drawing by © A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
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Common Name The Eared Myrosmodes
Flower Size small
Found in Merida state of Venezuela, Colombia, Carchi and Cotopaxi provinces of Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests on banks at elevations above 3200 to 3500 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with, when present, fasiculate, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the later fall on an erect, terminal, completely enveloped by infundibuliform, commonly imbricating sheaths, conic to cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence with elliptic, obscurely erose, irregular margins towards the apex floral bracts.
Similar to Myrosmodes rhynchocarpum and sometimes made a synonym of it but I haev left them separate for now.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Altensteinia rostrata not = Myrosmodes cochleare drawing fide;
*Flora of Ecuador #9 Vol 225 [1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 Colombian Orchid Society 1998 drawing/photo ok;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 37 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 38 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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