!Stenoptera peruviana C.Presl 1827
TYPE Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Peruvian Stenoptera
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Cañar province of Ecuador and Junin department of Peru in cold wet montane forests at elevations of 2100 to 2300 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with several, basal, lanceolate, acuminate leaves and a few leaflike bracts on the stem decreasing in size upwards that blooms in the late fall and winter on a terminal, erect, pubescent, densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped by overlapping, tubular, pubescent bracts and lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent floral bracts that are longer than the ovaries which are adpressed [type for S macrostachys] or not [type for S peruviana] to the rachis and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
"Distinguished by the non-resupinate flowers, the united sepals forming a tube, the elongate column and the petals and lip free from the column." Dodson 1984
Synonyms Gyrostachys macrostachya (Poepp. & Endl.) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes macrostachya Poepp. & Endl. 1836; Stenoptera leimebambae T.Hashim. 1971; Stenoptera macrostachya (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb.f. 1856
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
* Reliq. Haenk. 1: 95 C Presl 1827
Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 2: 8 Poepp & Endl. 1836 as Spiranthes macrostachya
Bonplandia (Hannover) 4: 211 Rchb.f 1856 as Stenoptera macrostachya
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys macrostachya
J. Jap. Bot. 46: 239 T Hashim. 1971 as Stenoptera leimebambae
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 983 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 387 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as S macrostachys drawing ok;
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