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(Last Modified On 11/8/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/8/2012)
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Species
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SPIRANTHES ACAULIS (J.E.Sm.) Cogn.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Bras. 34:221. 1895
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Synonym
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Neottia acaulis J. E. Smith, Exot. Bot. 2:9 1, t. I05. 1806. Arethusa Picta Anders. in Trans. Soc. Arts. 25. 1807. Neottia picta R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 5:199. 1813; Sims in Bot. Mag. 37: t. 1562. 1813. Sarcoglottis bicta Klotzsch in Allgem. Gartenz. 10:106. 1842; Schltr. in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37, Abt. 2:419. 1920. Gyrostachys Picta 0. Ktze. Rev. Gen. 2:664. 1891. Sarcoglottis Hunteriana Schltr. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. Beih. 17:13. 1922. Sarcoglottis Powellii Schltr. loc. cit. 14. Sarcoglottis Purpusiorum Schltr. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. 21:333. 1925.
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Description
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Large terrestrial herbs with basal leaves or with the leaves withered at flower- ing time, up to 1 m. tall but more commonly 3-4 dm. tall. Leaves petiolate or epetiolate; lamina 6-18 cm. long and 4-7 cm. broad when mature, elliptic to oval to oblanceolate or obovate, acute or obtuse, membranaceous, mottled; petiole short or none. Inflorescence up to 2 dm. long, few-many-flowered; bracts up to 4 cm. long, linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Dorsal sepal 15-22 mm. long and 3-4 mm. broad, ligulate, acute, pubescent dorsally. Lateral sepals 40-50 mm. long and 4-7 mm. broad, free part 18-28 mm. long, lanceolate, acute, arcuate, pubescent dorsally, basal part decurrent on the ovary and extending almost to the base. Petals 14-24 mm. long and 2-4 mm. broad, linear-lanceolate or usually linear-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, slightly arcuate, coherent to the dorsal sepal. Lip 30-40 mm. long and 7-11 mm. broad, essentially narrowly oblanceolate, ob- tuse, the dilated apical portion constricted and with an oval or suborbicular terminal lobe, disc pubescent below the constriction, bicaudate at the base, the caudae fleshy, retrorse.
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Distribution
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From Mexico through Central America and the West Indies, in South America to northern Argentina.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Culebra, Pittier 3427; near Panama City, San Juan, Manteca, Mata Redonda, Juan Diaz, Arias Hill, Frijoles, Powell 147, 179, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 394, 395, 398, 399, 3435, 3521, 3525, 3531, 3532, 3534, 3536, 3541, 3551, 3567, 3568, 3569, 3570.
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Note
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Known in Panama only from the Canal Zone where it grows in fairly open situations. A variable species.
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