!Myrosmodes nubigenum Rchb.f. 1854
Photo by Francisco Tobar and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Photo by A Cano and LANKESTERIANA 16(2): 139 . Delsy Trujillo Paúl Gonzáles, Huber Trinidad & Asunción Cano 2016 The Andean Genus Myrosmodes (Orchidaceae, Cranichideae) in Peru
Drawing by Caloway Dodson
Common Name or Meaning The Cloud Forest Myrosmodes
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Pichincha province of Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 3000 to 4700 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped completely by loose fitting, tubular, diaphonous sheaths that blooms in the winter on a terminated by a densely many flowered, conical inflorescence with ovate to suborbicular, minutely denticulate floral bracts with strongly scented flowers
Easily distinguished by the lip which is widest at the apex, subcordate in outline and prominently trilobed in the upper half, . M nubigena also has lacerate to fimbriate petal margins, found also in Myrosmodes cleefii and M filamentosa.
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution!
Synonyms Aa nubigena (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1912; Altensteinia nubigena (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f 1878;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchid. 1: 19 Rchb.f 1854
Xenia Orchid. 3: 18 Rchb.f 1878 as Altensteinia nubigena
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 150 Schlechter 1912 as Aa nubigena
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as Altensteinia nubigena;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Prima Parte Foldats 1969 as Altensteinia nubigena drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 as Altenstenia nubigena drawing not;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
LANKESTERIANA 16(2): 139 . Delsy Trujillo Paúl Gonzáles, Huber Trinidad & Asunción Cano 2016 The Andean Genus Myrosmodes (Orchidaceae, Cranichideae) in Peru Drawing/photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 39 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 417 pl 11-12 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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