Sauroglossum corymbosum (Lindl.) Garay 1978

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Inflorescence and Flowers in situ Peru

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Common Name The Corymb Sauroglossum

Flower Size

Found in Huanuco and Ayacucho departments of Peru and Bolivia on open hillsides and in low woods on montane slopes at elevations around 1800 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 basal, [often not present at flowering] elliptic, oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, stout to slender petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, peduncle, pubescent, to 16" [40 cm] long, provided with distant sheathing bracts, rachis 2" [5 cm] long, subumbellate-congested, densely many flowered inflorescence and carrying ovate-acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Pelexia corymbosa (Lindl.) Lindl. 1840; Spiranthes subumbellata C.Schweinf. 1941; *Synassa corymbosa Lindl. 1833;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 19: t. 1618 Lindley 1833 as Synassa corymbosa

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 482 Lindley 1840 as Pelexia corymbosa

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 31 C Schweinfurth 1941 as Spiranthes subumbellata

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 26: 19 Garay 1978

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 147 Schweinfurth 1958 as Spiranthes subumbellata;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Synassa corymbosa;

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