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
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
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/43325902/43328159
Colombia.
Terrestrial herbaceous perennial. Rhizomes to 3 cm long and 1 cm wide. Roots to 0.4 cm in diam, usually striate. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate-ligulate, 4 - 30 cm long, 1.5 - 3.6 cm wide, often widening appreciably 3 - 5 cm from base, thin, glabrous, pale green, often purple basally; margins revolute; apex minutely trifid, oblique, tiny side lobes comprised of marginal tissue and often secondarily lobed. Inflorescence a 1 - 10 flowered spicate raceme or panicle 12 - 27 cm tall. Peduncle purple, sparsely velutinous. Floral bracts ovate-triangular, navicular, 2 - 4 cm long, 1.4 - 2.0 cm wide, shorter than ovary, glabrous, strongly keeled, fused up to 0.6 cm from base on marginal side; margins composed of ranks of perpendicularly elongate cells; apex minutely trifid. Sterile lower bracts 0 - 1, ovate, 3 - 4 cm long, 1.4 cm wide, 6 - 9 cm from plant base; margins similar to basal leaves; apex minutely bifid, oblique. Flower whitish-pink to magenta; outer surfaces mostly pilose-velutinous; inner surfaces mostly glabrous to sparsely pubescent; margins glabrous to ciliate. Dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, 1.5 - 2.0 cm long, 1.0 - 1.2 cm wide, pink to white infused with pink, 7-nerved; outer surface pilose; margins ciliate; apex acute. Synsepal elliptic, 1.3 - 2.0 cm long, 1 cm wide, smaller than labellum, pink to white infused with pink, not strongly nerved; margins ciliate; apex acute to minutely bifid. Labellum round to slightly pointed, 1.6 - 2.5 cm long, 1.4 cm wide at the widest point, pink to magenta, thin interveinar tissue forming window-like network on sides and back of labellum; labellar opening oval to round, slightly scalloped on apical rim; apical labellum rim dark pink or magenta; apical labellum lining shallow, gently inturned, not sharply folded, often striped with magenta; lateral labellum rim minutely pubescent, spurs absent; lateral labellum lining 0.5 - 0.8 cm wide; claw face white or yellow with pink spots, tubercles absent; claw interior villous, dark red spotted. Petals obovate-rhomboid, 1.5 - 2.4 cm long, 1.1 - 1.4 cm wide, white infused with pink, nerves branching, central nerve prominent, petals held at 90 ͦ from labellum; inner surface sparsely puberulent; basal hairs white, villous-arachnoid; margins ciliate, slightly undulate; apex obtuse. Staminode ovate-pandurate, 0.6 - 1.0 cm long, 0.5 - 0.9 cm wide at apical half, bright yellow with 1-2 reddish-pink apical splotches, central vein often prominent, puberulous; lateral and basal margins often white, finely ciliate; apex acute to shallowly bilobed. Column to 3 mm long, whitish-pink, pilose. Pollinarium 1 - 2 mm wide, anther dark-pigmented. Stigmatic area to 2 mm wide; median lobe conical, to 3 mm long; lateral lobes rounded. Ovary, including pedicel, 5 - 9 cm long, velutinous to hirsute, dark purple. Capsule dark purple-brown, hirsute, splitting in middle; loculicidal vascular strand separating from capsule, beige. Seeds to 1.1 mm long. Chromosome number 2n=30 (Karasawa, 1980).
Phragmipedium schlimii is found on wet slopes and road cuts, and rocky crevasses of wet forests in Colombia at 1200-2000 m in elevation. Their roots reach deep between rocks, making them difficult to dislodge (Fowlie, 1970). The species occurs on both the eastern and western slopes of both Andean cordilleras.
The known habitats are in altitudes of around 1400 m above sea-level, along small rivers in fully shaded spots that are exposed to a constant breeze.
Species haec Phragmipedium schlimii (Linden ex Rchb. fil.) Rolfe persimilis, sed forma staminodi differt an illo.
Phragmipedium fischeri is hitherto only known from Ecuador.
Phragmipedium fischeri is an herbaceous humus epiphyte. The leaves are about 3.2 cm wide and up to 20 cm long. The Inflorescence is about 20 cm high. There are two to several flowers, generally opening successively. The flowers are about 5 cm in overal width. The dorsal sepal is more or less 2 cm long and 1.1 cm wide. The petals are 2.3 cm long and 1.6 cm wide. The synsepalum is about 1 cm wide and distinctly shorter than the pouch-formed labellum. The staminode is of an unusual complex composition, the staminodal shield is more or less square with a raised ridge down the middle. The labellum is inverted helmshaped [sic], about 1.2 cm wide and about 1.9 cm long from the base to the tip. Between the synsepalum and the pouch there is an additional lobe, somewhat broader than the synsepalum but again shorter than the labellum. The margins of this lobe are undulated. The overall flower colour is a deep pink, darker than the colour encountered in P. schlimii. The staminode is of a whitish-cream colour, the raised ridge is yellow with a purple spot at the lower end. The additional lobe and the synsepal are of a lighter pink than the rest of the flower.
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
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
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/43324499/43328089
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
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/86251344/86251346
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
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
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/43325573/43328134
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
Known only from the western cordillera of the Andes in the NW Ecuador/Colombia border region.
Plant lithophytic. Leaves linear, acute, up to 15 × 1.3–2 cm, mid-green. Inflorescence erect to arching-suberect, 13–16 cm long, unbranched or with one branch, flowers produced in succession; peduncle purple, finely white-pubescent; sterile bract on peduncle acute, 2–3 cm long, green; fertile bracts conduplicate, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 2–2.5 × 1 cm, green with a purple base. Flowers with pale pink sepals, white petals flushed with pale pink on back, and white staminode with a yellow central spot; lip pink with purple- and pink-spots and with a yellow stripe along the back wall within; pedicel and ovary 5.5–6.5 × 0.2–0.3 cm, purple, finely white-pubescent. Dorsal sepal elliptic, obtuse, 2.1–2.2 × 1.2–1.3 cm, lateral margins reflexed, finely pubescent on both surfaces; synsepal similar in shape, shorter than the lip, 2–2.2 × 1.6–2 cm, bi-keeled on reverse, margins reflexed. Petals elliptic to obovate, rounded, 2.4 × 1.6 cm, margins reflexed, finely white pubescent on inner surface. Lip urceolate, 2.1 × 1.2–1.4 cm, finely pubescent on outside; side margins incurved, more so at the base, hairy within and without. Column 0.6 cm long; staminode obtrullate, 0.7 × 0.6 cm, bifid at tip; anthers small, bilocular; stigma 4.5–5 mm long, spatulate, hidden by staminode.
On rocks, by fast-flowing streams, 500–1000 m.
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
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/43324087/114200170
