|
(Last Modified On 11/16/2012)
|
|
|
|
(Last Modified On 11/16/2012)
|
|
Species
|
EPIDENDRUM BOOTHII (Lindl.) L. Wms.
|
|
PlaceOfPublication
|
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 26:28 2. 1939.
|
|
Synonym
|
Maxillaria Boothii Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 24: Misc. p. 52. 1838. Dinema paleaceum Lindl. loc. cit. 26: Misc. p. 51. 1840. Epidendrum auritum Lindl. loc. cit. 29: Misc. p. 4. 1843. Epidendrum paleaceum Reichb. f. in Beitr. Orch. Centr.-Am. 80. 1866; Reichb. f. in Saunders Ref. Bot. 2: t. 87. 1869. Nidema Boothii Schltr. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. Beih. 17:43. 1922.
|
|
Description
|
Repent or subcaespitose epiphytic herbs up to about 3 dm. tall. Rhizome creeping. Pseudobulbs up to about 5 cm. long, cylindric, fusiform or narrowly ovoid, stipitate, unifoliate. Leaves (when mature) 5-22 cm. long and 0.4-1.2 cm. broad, linear-ligulate, obtuse or acute, coriaceous. Inflorescence a 1- to few- flowered raceme; flowers small; tracts mostly 2-3 cm. long, lanceolate, cucullate, paleaceous, relatively large. Dorsal sepal 12-17 mm. long and 3-4 mm. broad, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acute. Lateral sepals 11-15 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, arcuate. Petals 7-12 mm. long and 2-4.5 mm. broad, lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute or acumi- nate. Lip 8-11 mm. long and 2-3.5 mm. broad, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, slightly constricted above the middle, fleshy, bicarinate toward the base; disc often verrucose toward the apex.
|
|
Distribution
|
From Mexico to Panama, the West Indies and northern South America, mostly at low elevations.
|
|
Specimen
|
BOCAS DEL TORO: Rio Cricamola, alt. about 10-15 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 1892; Isla Colon, Wedel 123; vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 1989.
|
|
Note
|
A species of low altitudes, often taken to be a Maxillaria.
|
|
Tag
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Tag
|
|
|
|