Myrosmodes paludosa (Rchb.f.) P.Ortiz 1995
Photo by H. Trinidad and LANKESTERIANA 16(2): 139 . Delsy Trujillo Paúl Gonzáles, Huber Trinidad & Asunción Cano 2016 The Andean Genus Myrosmodes (Orchidaceae, Cranichideae) in Peru
Drawing by Foldats and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Pale Myrosmodes
Flower Size Minute
Found in Merida state of Venezuela, Santander, Boyaca, Arauca, and Cundinamarca department of Colombia, Chimborazo province of Ecuador, Junin, and Puno departments of Cusco Peru, Bolivia and Argentina at elevations of 3900 to 4600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 5, on a short, lateral shoot, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, acute to shortly acuminte, narrowing below into the broadly imbricating, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a erect, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, overall, rachis to 1" [2.5 cm] long, conic to cylindric-conic, very densely many flowered inflorescence with transversly oval, to sub-orbicular, erose dentate above, hyaline, shorter than the flowers floral bracts.
"In a group of species without a rostrate ovary, M paludosa is the only one with an unlobed lip. The lip of this species is deeply cochleate, subglobose to ovoid to orbicular, to elliptic in outline." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Aa inaequalis (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1912; *Aa paludosa (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1912; Aa pumilio Schltr. 1921; Altensteinia inaequalis Rchb.f. 1878; Altensteinia paludosa Rchb.f. 1878; Myrosmodes inaequalis (Rchb.f.) C.A.Vargas 2011 Myrosmodes pumilio (Schltr.) C.A.Vargas 1995
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchid. 3: 19 Rchb.f 1878 as Altensteinia paludosa
Xenia Orchid. 3: 19 Rchb.f 1878 as Altensteinia inaequalis
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 150 Schlechter 1912 as Aa paludosa
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 150 Schlechter 1912 as Aa inaequalis
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 150 Schlechter 1912 as Aa pumilio
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru, Vol 1: 102 Charles Schweinfurth 1958;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Prima Parte Foldats 1969 as Altensteinia paludosa drawing fide;
*Orquídeas Colombia: 286 Ortiz 1995
Lindleyana 10: 6 C A Vargas 1995 as Myrosmodes pumilio
Lankestriana 11(1): 5 Trujillo & Vargas 2011 as M inaequalis drawing 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: 40 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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