Sarcoglottis cerina (Lindl.) P. N. Don 1845
Photo by © Maria Teresa Diaz Colocho
Photos by © A L de Macvean and The Arboretum de la Universidad Francisco Marroquin Website
Plant in situ Mexico silver spotted leaves
Photo by © Clarence Horich
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Common Name The Waxy Colored Sarcoglottis
Flower Size
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a rosette of elliptic, acute, basally clasping silver spotted or striped leaves that are not present at blooming on a terminal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, rachis 8" [20 cm] long, pubescentseveral to many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Pelexia cerina (Lindl.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Spiranthes cerina Lindl. 1842; Zhukowskia cerina (Lindl.) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol II Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes cerina drawing ok;
Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 photo plant only;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as Spiranthes cerina photo fide;
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