Orchidaceae
Beloglottis

Beloglottis costaricensis (Rchb.f.) Schltr.

First published in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 365 (1920)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Florida, Mexico to Tropical America. It is an epiphyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
Terrestrial, erect herbs with few thick, fleshy, roots 1–6 cm long
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 2–3, fugacious, present or absent at the time of flowering, delicate, glabrous; petioles erect, slender, 2–4 cm long; blades spreading, elliptic, acute, 2.5–4.5(–9) cm long, 1.3–2.0(–3.3) cm wide. Inflorescence a many-flowered, slender, pubescent raceme; floral bracts erect, clasping base of ovary, ovate, acuminate, 5–9 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white with dark green midveins, resupinate, subsalverform; sepals dorsally and basally pubescent, united at their base, dorsal sepal 1-nerved, lanceolate, acute, 4–6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide; lateral sepals 1- nerved, oblique, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 4.2–6 mm long, 1.2 mm wide; petals glabrous and parallel to the dorsal sepal, 1-nerved, linear, slightly falcate, acute, 4 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; lip glabrous, attached to base of column foot, 3-nerved, clawed, auriculate, pandurate, acute-acuminate, 4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, the claw 1.5 mm long, the auricles subulate, 0.7–0.8 mm long, projecting basally and flanking the column and column foot
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Column
Column slender, 2.5 mm long with a foot that extends obliquely along the ovary 1.5 mm long without forming a mentum. Capsules erect, ellipsoidal, 4–6 mm long.
Ecology
Rocky woodland
Distribution
Grand Cayman.  Florida, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad.
[Cayman]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 780–1000 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Cundinamarca, Magdalena.
Habit
Herb.
[UPFC]

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. 1000 m.; Andes.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba
Conservation
No Evaluada
[CPLC]

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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

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

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • 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

  • 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

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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