Quechua glabrescens (T.Hashim.) Salazar & L.Jost 2012
Plant and Flowers A: Peru C: Ecuador
Photos by © Erica Moron and Lou Jost and
TYPE Drawing of Spiranthes glabrescensby © Garay Harvard Bot Mus. Leafl. 28 1982
Common Name The Glabrous Quechua
Flower Size
Found in Ecuador and Peru on steep rocky slopes and canyons of limestone in foothills and mountain rain forest at elevations of 1100 to 1700 meters as a small sized, acaulescernt, cool growing lithophyte with 3 to 8, in a basal rosette, oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, fleshy, lustrous grayish-green on the upper surface, whitish green with darker midrib on the underside, sessile leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, peduncle glabrous, to 9.2" [23 cm] long, reddish-brown, partially covered by pale green, strict tubular sheathing bracts, rachis loosely one-sided, mostly simultaneously open, with 15 to 40 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, spicily nocturnally scented flowers
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Synonyms Beadlea glabrescens (T.Hashim.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Cyclopogon glabrescens (T.Hashim.) Dodson, Brako & Zarucchi 1993; Spiranthes glabrescens T.Hashim. 1971
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Jap. Bot. 46: 175 Hashim 1971 as Spiranthes glabrescens
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 300 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea glabrescens
Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: 1257 Dodson 1993 as Cyclopogon glabrescens
Candollea 48: 432 Szlach 1993 as Cyclopogon glabrescens
* Syst. Bot. 37: 81 Salazar & Jost 2012 photos fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 145 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide;
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