Cryptocentrum, Bentham, 1881
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.68.1.5 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5067557 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3B26C55B-FF89-FFA9-EE84-C904FA49F861 |
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Felipe |
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Cryptocentrum |
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Key to the species of Cryptocentrum View in CoL from Peru
1. Pseudobulbs present, plants with sympodial habit ....................................................................................................... 2
– Pseudobulbs absent, plants with monopodial habit ...................................................................................................... 3
2. Pseudobulbs ellipsoid, totally or partially hidden by the sheaths, these with foliar blades; leaves 15–37 mm long, hemicylindric or subtriquetrous; inflorescences thickly peduncled, (15–) 30–45 mm long; internodes of the inflorescence subequal in length to the subtending bracts; floral bract 11–12 mm long ........................... C. pseudobulbosum View in CoL
– Pseudobulbs subspherical to subconical, broadly ellipsoid or broadly ovoid, when young clothed by several dark castaneous sheaths without blades that disintegrate into grayish fibers with age, totally naked when old; leaves 40–90 mm long, conduplicate, thinly coriaceous; inflorescences thinly peduncled, 40–60 mm long, internodes of the inflorescence twice as long as the subtending bracts. ............................................................................ C. beckendorfii View in CoL
3. Leaves distichous; blades (3–)7–20(–30) cm long, conduplicate, coriaceous; inflorescences (2–) 3–10 cm long; floral bract totally enclosing the spur; spur (16–)18–28(–32) mm long ..................................................... C. inaequisepalum View in CoL
– Leaves spiral; blades (1.0–)1.2–1.8(–2.5) cm long, hemicylindric to subtriquetrous; inflorescences 0.4–0.7 cm long; floral bract enclosing only 1/10 to 1/2 of the spur; spur (4.0–)4.5–7.0(–11.0) mm long ............................................. 4
4. Petals 7.5–10.0 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, 3-nerved; spur 9–11 mm long; plants from elevations usually above 1500 m ..................................................................... C. peruvianum ssp. minus ( Schlechter 1912: 389) Carnevali (2001: 482) View in CoL
– Petals 3.5–6.0 mm long, <1.5 mm wide, 1-nerved or very faintly 3-nerved; spur 4.5–7.0(–8.0) mm long; plants from elevations usually below 1500 m .................................................................................................................................... ...................................................... C. peruvianum ssp. peruvianum ( Cogniaux 1906: 331) Schweinfurth (1946: 188) View in CoL
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