Beloglottis costaricensis Schltr.

Costa rican lady's tresses (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Beloglottis

Characteristics

Plants to 40 cm. Roots 1–4, 1–6 cm × 3–8 mm. Stems subterranean or nearly so, short. Leaves fugacious, present or absent at time of flowering, 2–5, delicate, glabrous; petiole erect, slender, 2–4 cm; blade spreading, elliptic, 2–4.5 × 1.3–2 cm, apex acute. Inflorescences 6–35-flowered racemes, pubescent distally; scape 10–12.5 cm × 0.6–1 mm; bracts 5–6; floral bracts ovate, 5–12 mm, apex acuminate. Flowers white with green midveins, subsalverform; sepals connate at base, 1-veined, lanceolate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, abaxially pubescent; dorsal sepal 4–6 × 1.5 mm; lateral sepals oblique, 4.2–6 × 1.2 mm; petals 1-veined, linear, slightly falcate, 4 × 0.6 mm, apex acute, glabrous; lip adnate to base of column foot, 3-veined, 4.5 × 1.5–2 mm, glabrous; claw 1.5 mm, auricles subulate, 0.7–0.8 mm, projecting basally, flanking column and column foot; column slender, 2.5 mm, foot extending obliquely along ovary 1.5 mm without forming mentum; pedicellate ovary 3–4 mm, sparsely pubescent. Capsules 4–6 mm.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

Beloglottis costaricensis world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31124-2
WFO ID wfo-0000323653
COL ID LB6H
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INPN ID 849217
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Synonyms

Spiranthes bicaudata Beloglottis bicaudata Beloglottis costaricensis Gyrostachys costaricensis Spiranthes costaricensis