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Fifty three flowers, 30 buds
arranged in a double spiral on a 73-cm inflorescence on a terrestrial plant
with five glossy, elliptical and serrulate leaves 29-cm long x 8-cm wide;
sepals and petals yellow-green, petals too small to measure; lip white; prominent
ovary, pannose, dark green; prominent anther cap dark brown; substance medium
firm; texture glossy.

Sauroglossum elatum Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 19: t. 1618 (1833).

This name is accepted.

20161111 National capital

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/242353627_fig3_Fig-3-Original-plates-of-Vellozo's-Serapias-nitida-and-Lindley's-Sauroglossum-elatum

Sauroglossum elatum Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 19: t. 1618 (1833).

Homotypic Synonyms:

Spiranthes sauroglossum G.Nicholson, Ill. Dict. Gard. 3: 479 (1886).

Heterotypic Synonyms:

Cyclopogon procerus Regnell & Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 280 (1882).

Spiranthes excelsa Kraenzl., Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.s., 46(10): 33 (1911).

Spiranthes pachychila Kraenzl., Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.s., 46(10): 37 (1911).

Sauroglossum nitidum var. andinum Hauman, Anales Soc. Ci. Argent. 90: 123 (1920).

below lindley drawing of type, and a foto of the species from a revision of the genus

Sauroglossum elatum, award 2016111, has been confirmed
to be Sauroglossum elatum by SITF
(June 2016).

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