This species was very common in the Alta Floresta area, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Photos to the left are from that area and the Cristalino Private Reserve. They are all from subspecies lanceolatus - not from subspecies pulchriflorus as indicated on the Kew website at http://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/imagedatabase/large1/cat_single1-1091.htm (see photo series at 1089-1093.htm)
I have seen photos of a plant I believe to be subsp. pulchriflorus on the internet at http://www.flickr.com/photos/grandma-shirley/5874278239/in/photostream/. They were taken at Carajas in Para state in Brazil. The plants in these photos do not have the elongated inflorescence, but I cannot tell for sure how the calyx length compares to the bract length.
NATURAL DISTRIBUTION:Colombia, Surinam and Brazil
HEIGHT:0 to 0 meters
Plant Part | General | Color | Hairs | Texture | Shape | Length | Width |
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Rhizome | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm | |||||
Sheath | | | glabrous to minutely densely puberulous | 0 to 0 cm | 3 to 8 mm | ||
Ligule | glabrous | | 1 to 4 mm | 0 to 0 mm | |||
Petiole | | | glabrous | | 2 to 4 mm | 0 to 0 mm | |
Leaf | | | narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate | 6 to 20 cm | 2 to 7 cm | ||
...upper | | glabrous to minutely densely puberulous | | | | ||
...under | | glabrous to minutely densely puberulous | |||||
...base | | cuneate to rounded | | ||||
...apex | acuminate | 5 to 20 mm | |||||
Inflorescence | terminal on a leafy stem | | | angular obovode to fusiform | 3 to 15 cm | 2 to 4 cm | |
Bract | not imbricate, 5-12 mm wide, callus 1-5 mm long | green | glabrous to minutely densely puberulous | herbaceous to chartaceous | triangular | 1.0 to 3.5 cm | 0.5 to 0.8 cm |
Appendage | appendage not found on bract | | | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | ||
Bracteole | tubular but often deeply split, 2 lobed | green | glabrous to minutely densely puberulous | herbaceous to chartaceous | tubular but often deeply split, 2 lobed | 1.0 to 1.7 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | purplish | | | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm | ||
Calyx | green | glabrous to minutely densely puberulous | herbaceous to chartaceous | | 2.0 to 3.2 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | |
Corolla | tube 15-25 mm long | fiery red to orange red | glabrous or minutely puberulous | | | 5.0 to 6.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum | limb suborbicular, margins crenulate | fiery red to deep crimson, drying deep purple | shortly fimbriate or glabrous | | | 2.5 to 3.0 cm | 3.0 to 3.5 cm |
Stamen | Basal part of stamen and labellum joined in a slender tube 45-50 mm long and 4-5 mm wide | orange | | apex irreg. Dentate, stigma cup shaped | 1.2 to 1.5 cm | 0.3 to 0.6 cm |