| Habitat |
High-Andean cloud forest |
Atlantic rain forest |
Lowland Amazonian rainforest |
Lowland Amazonian rainforest and lower montane rain forest |
Lowland Amazonian rainforest |
Lower and upper montane rainforest |
| Phenology of flowering |
After the shedding of the leaves |
With functional leaves |
With functional leaves |
With functional leaves |
With functional leaves |
With functional leaves |
| Flower coloration |
Homogeneous dull green or yellow |
Pale green or rosy-green with contrasting reddish veins, especially on the epichile of the labellum |
Yellowish |
Sepals reddish-brown with greenish base, petals white with 3 brownish-pink veins, labellum pale green becoming white distally, with 7 faint, pinkish veins on the epichile |
Flesh-colored while opening, the lateral sepals and the epichile of the labellum turning golden yellow within 1-2 days |
Sepals and petals pale green to bronzy, lip white with pale green epichile provided with darker green veins |
| Hypochile |
Strongly cymbiform in natural position, when spread our obovate, as wide as long |
Channeled in natural position, when spread out oblanceolate, about two times longer than wide or longer |
Channeled in natural position, when spread out oblanceolate, about two times longer than wide or longer |
Channeled in natural position, when spread out oblanceolate, about two times longer than wide or longer |
Channeled in natural position, when spread out oblanceolate, four to five times longer than wide |
Channeled in natural position, when spread out oblanceolate, four to five times longer than wide |
| Epichile |
Ovate, strongly deflexed, with a central longitudinal thickening reaching its apex |
Triangular, erect or gently arching, thin |
5-lobulate, semiglobose, thin |
Obreniform to broadly triangular, strongly revolute with two basal, papillose, convergent thickenings separated by a central groove |
Obreniform to broadly triangular, strongly revolute with two basal, papillose, convergent thickenings separated by a central groove |
Obreniform, gently recurved with two basal, convergent thickenings separated by a central groove |
| Ventral surface of column |
Deeply and narrowly canaliculate, the channel limited at each side by a round longitudinal keel, column foot lacking the channel |
Deeply and narrowly canaliculate, the channel limited at each side by a round longitudinal keel, column foot lacking the channel |
Unknown |
Broadly and shallowly channeled including the columm foot |
Broadly and shallowly channeled including the columm foot |
Broadly and shallowly channeled including the columm foot |
| Beak of the anther |
Truncate |
Rounded |
Unknown |
Rounded |
Rounded |
Rounded |
Sarcoglottis wernerherzogii (Spiranthinae), a new species from Cusco, Peru,: addenda