Forgot to add a few photos from the Tambopata River area.
Habenaria sp. (growing as an emergent at the margin of an oxbow lake)
Potentially Microchilus (hey Lance?) but definitely within the Goodyerinae. Growing in terra firme in deep shade.
Detail of above species. I was a few...
These were found in the eastern Andes along the Inca Trail. I welcome any ideas about identity!
Aa sp.
Aa sp. (I think this is the same as the previous species, but I don't know for sure)
Pterichis leucoptera (I think)
Pterichis silvestris (I think)
I wish! Unfortunately, we only had the bare-bones tour package (it was part of a larger tour). Had we known how enamored we would be with the area, we would've definitely nixed our extra days in Lima and ponied up for some more in-depth tours of the area. As a consolation, we at least got to see...
Lance, I thought of you but for some reason thought you were in northeast Peru. I actually flew into PM before catching a canoe up the Tambopata. Next time! I'll try to post a couple Tampobata photos today. One is of a mystery terrestrial (maybe Microchilus) and the other is a very large...
I don't honestly know what the next step would be, but the last time I actually looked in to it (probably 4 years ago), internally transcribed spacer regions of ribosomal DNA tend to be be what is looked at for DNA-based systematic analyses.
Right. Fortunately, our slipper orchids tend to fall in to easy geographic patterns: IE Paphiopedilum in Asia and Phragmipedium in Central and South America. However, if a slipper orchid were discovered in South America that exhibited characteristics of Paphiopedilum (and grouped with...
Hey everyone. I apologize for not visiting the forum in, uh, three years (121236 unread posts!)
I just got back from two weeks in Peru. I photographed a few dozen orchids, but I'm having some trouble with identification. For instance, I photographed four different species within the...