Sacoila hassleri (Cogn.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982
Drawing by © F C Hoehne
Collection sheet and Drawing by © Pedro Jorgenson
Common Name Hassler's Sacoila [botanist in Paraguay early 1900's]
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Surinam?, Parana state of Brazil and Paraguay as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with a robust, glabrous, pale green stem carrying 5 to 6 basal, larger, erect to erect-patent, inner ones are longer and attenuated into a pseudopetiole, the outer ones smaller and more obtuse, those on the stem are more distant, lower ones obtuse and the upper ones more acute leaves and becoming reduced to sheaths above that blooms on an erect, terminal, peduncle 20 to 32" [50 to 80 cm] long, rachis, 4 to6" [10 to 15 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acute, slightly puberulous, shorter than the flower floral bracts and carrying white, membraneous flowers with the segments slightly open.
Schlechter compared this species with Sacoila argentina
Synonyms Pachygenium longifolium (Cogn.) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001; Pelexia longifolia (Cogn.) Hoehne 1945; *Stenorrhynchos hassleri Cogn 1906; Stenorrhynchos longifolium Cogn. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 173 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos longifolium Cogn. 1895
Fl. Bras. 3(6): 534 Cogniaux 1906
Fl. Bras. 3(6): tab 111 fig 1 Cogniaux 1906 as Stenorrhynchos longifolium Cogn. 1895
Fl. Brasílica 8(12; 2): 269 Hoehne 1945 as Stenorrhynchos hassleri
Fl. Brasílica 8(12; 2): Tab 142 Hoehne 1945 as Stenorrhynchos hassleri drawing fide
Fl. Brasílica 8(12; 2): 249 Hoehne 1945 as Pelexia longifolia;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Stenorrhynchus hassleri drawing fide;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 351 Garay 1980 publ. 1982
Polish Bot. J. 46: 5 Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium longifolium
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