Orchidaceae
Selenipedium

Selenipedium chica Rchb.f.

First published in Xenia Orchid. 1: 3 (1854)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Panama. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 870–870 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Nariño.
Habit
Herb, Epiphyte.
Conservation
IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): EN B1ab(i,ii,iii,v)+2ab(i,ii,iii,v). National Red List of Colombia (2021): NT. Listed in Appendix II of CITES.
[UPFC]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/43327245/43328184

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

Distribution

Panama, endemic to Pacific slope and upper Chagres basin.

Ecology

Terrestrial at sea level.

General Description

A terrestrial herb with leafy stems up to 5 m tall covered by sheathing leaf bases. Leaves somewhat membranaceous, distichous, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 15–30 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, sparsely pubescent dorsally especially along the veins, with a cylindrical sheathing base, 2–4 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, many-flowered, densely pubescent; bracts lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 1–1.5 cm long, shortly pubescent. Flowers small to medium-sized, opening in succession, soon deciduous if not fertilised, pubescent on outer surface of sepals; sepals and petals greenish brown, lip yellow flushed with brown and stained with red-purple on incurved margin of lip orifice; pedicel and ovary 1.5–2.3 cm long. Dorsal sepal erect, elliptic, acute, c. 2 cm long, 1 cm wide. Synsepal elliptic, slightly bifid at apex, c. 2 cm long, 1 cm wide. Petals deflexed, obliquely linear-lanceolate, acute, up to 2 cm long, 0.2 cm wide, glabrous. Lip calceolate, with an incurved margin, 2–3 cm long, 1–1.8 cm wide. Column 0.5–0.7 cm long; stigma elliptic-trullate, twice as long as the stigma, papillate; staminode narrower than column apex, triangular. Fruit cylindrical, somewhat arcuate, pubescent.

[C-EM]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 870 m.; Andes.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba, epífita
Conservation
Casi Amenazada
[CPLC]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Cypripedioideae: e-monocot.org

    • All Rights Reserved

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0