Comparettia falcata Poepp. & Endl.

 

publié dans Nova Genera ac Species Plantarum 1: 42, t. 73. 1835.

 

synonyme :  Comparettia rosea Lindl.
Edwards's Botanical Register 26: misc. 76. 1840.

 

bibliographie sur l'espèce

Adams, B. R. & P. J. Cribb, 1985, A new species and new records of Orchidaceae for Belize, Kew Bulletin, 40(3): 637-642.

Ames, O. & D. S. Correll, 1953, Orchids of Guatemala, Fieldiana, Botany, 26(2): 399-727.

Atwood, J. T. & D. E. Mora de Retana, 1999, Family #39 Orchidaceae: Tribe Maxillarieae: subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae, Fieldiana: Botany, New Series, 40: i-vi, 1-182.

Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D. E. Atha, 2000, Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 85: i-ix, 1-246. 

Breedlove, D. E., 1986, Flora de Chiapas, Listados Florísticos de México, 4: i-v, 1-246.

Dodson, C. H. & P. M. Dodson, 1980, Orchids of Ecuador, Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, 1: 1-100.

Dodson, C. H. & R. Escobar R., 1994, AA - Dracula, Native Ecuadorian Orchids, 1: 11-207.

Foster, R. C., 1958, A catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of Bolivia, Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 184: 1-223.

Hamer, F., 1982, Orchids of Nicaragua, Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Fasc. 7: 601-700. 

Hamer, F., 1988, Orchids of Central America, Selbyana, 10 (suppl.): 1-430. 

McLeish, I., N. R. Pearce & B. R. Adams, 1995, Native Orchids of Belize, 1-278. 

Molina R., A., 1975, Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras, Ceiba, 19(1): 1-118.

Schweinfurth, C., 1960, Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru, Fieldiana, Botany, 30(3): 533-786.

Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa U., A. Pool & O. M. Montiel, 2001, Flora de Nicaragua, Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden, 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. 

Steyermark, J. et al., 1995, Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Project.

Anonymous, 1986, List-Based Record, Soil Conservation Service, U.S.D.A. 


données de collecte pour la Colombie

Antioquia: 1500 m, 19 Septiembre 1986, L. O. Marulanda et al 159 (HUA).

 

texte d'archives

"C. falcata.
            "Pseudo-bulbs clustered, small, oblong, more or less sheathed with scales, monopyllous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute 1½-2½ inches long. Scapes slender, purplish, 7-9 inches, pendent, loosely racemose towards the extremity, 4-7 (or more) flowered ; bracts distant, small and scale-like. Flowers about an inch in diameter, purplish red, almost crimson ; dorsal sepal and petals free, concave ; lateral sepals connate, placed immediately under the labellum and spurred ; lip broadly obcordate, emarginate with an elevation on the claw, bicalcarate at the base, the two spurs enclosed by the larger sepaline spur which is about as long as the blade of the labellum." - Botanical Magazine.
            Comparettia falcata, Pöppig et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. I. p. 42 (1835). Bot. Mag.  t. 4980. Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI, p. 688. Lindenia, IV. t. 163. Williams' Orchid Alb. VIII, t. 359. C. rosea, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 186. Paxt. Mag. Bot. X. p. 1. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serres, II. t. 6 (1846).
            Comparettia falcata, the type species of the genus, was discovered by Pöppig some time prior to 1835 in Ecuador, between Cassapi and Pampayaco (nof found on modern maps). The earliest notice of it as a horticultural plant occurs in 1840, when a Comparettia was cultivated by Messrs. Loddiges, who informed Dr. Lindley that they had imported if from the Spanish Main. This was named C. rosea by Dr. Lindley and was afterwards figured under that name in Paxton's Magazine of Botany, but rightly reduced to a synonym of C. falcata by Reichenbach in his synopsis of the genus in Walper's Anales Botanices. It was next found by Linden in the Venezuelian province of Merida, and subsequently imported by him from that region through his relative Louis Schlim. It has since been gathered in Guatemala, Cuba, Santa Martha, Ecuador and other places, thus proving the species to be widely dispersed.
            The region inhabited by Comparettia falcata may be thus briefly sketched. In latitute it occurse from 2 S. to 16 N., that is from Central Ecuador to Guatemala. Its lowest vertical limit in Guatemala is about 3,200 feet elevation, gradually increasing to 4,000 feet at the equator, the highest corresponding limits being estimated at 4,500 and 5,700 feet. The climate of this reigon is rather changeable, not only with respect to the temperature but also with respect to the periodical rainfall and the hygrometric condition of the atmosphere. The mean temperature of the entire region is about 18° C. (64° F,), but the difference between the annual maximum mean and the annual minimum mean of the warmest and coldest month is inconsiderable ; it is only 1.5° - 2° C. (2° - 3° F) in Colombia and Ecuador, but in Guatemala it is 6.5° - 7.5° C. (12° - 14° F.). The quantity of moisture in the atmosphere varies somewaht according to the season, but there is sufficient ground to conclude that during the wet season it is probably of uniform proportion over the entire zone.
            Comparettia falcata is very particular as to the tree on which it grows ; in Guatemala it is found on oaks and oranges with but few exceptions ; in other places it selects the Guava tree (a species of Inga). The woods in which it appears are usually of a thinly set copse-wood character or in park-like savannahs. The plants vary with locality ; in Guatemala they are small, producing short wiry scapes with only three to five flowers but intensely couloured ; in some parts of Colombia they are much longer and produce strong panicles of twenty-five to forty flowers.
             Rodriguezias (Burlingtonias), Trichocentrums and Ionopses [sic] grow under much the same conditions as this plant.*

* F. C. Lehmann in Gard. Chron. XX. (1883), p. 24."

source : .Veitch, .James, A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, Part IX, 1893, pp. 165-166.

référence et numérisation du texte / reference and scan of the text : kindly provided by Peter Fowler, Alton, UK -- Merci / Thanks !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

source de l'illustration : Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 83, series 3, 1857, planche 4980.

 

 

 

 

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