Myrosmodes rostrata (Rchb.f.) Garay 1978

Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

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Common Name The Beaked Myrosmodes

Flower Size .064" [1.6mm]

Found in Caldas, Tolima and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia, Pichincha province of Ecuador and Bolivia? in paramo at elevations around 3000 to 4400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with fasciculate, fusiform, fleshy roots giving rise to rosulate, deciduous, ovate-elliptic to elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a lateral, peduncle completely enveloped by imbricating, loose sheaths decreasing in size upwards into the bracts, 6" [15 cm] long, overall, rachis densely many flowered inflorescence with hyaline, irregular margined, reddish brown, shorter than the flower floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

Similar to Myrosmodes breve in having a distinctly cordate lip base, but unlike M brevis it has a three lobed rostellum." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms Aa rostrata (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1912; *Altensteinia rostrata Rchb.f. 1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Xenia Orchid. 3: 18 Rchb.f 1878 as Altensteinia rostrata

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 150 Schlechter 1912 as Aa rostrata

*Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 172 Garay 1978;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 34 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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