Acineta sella-turcica Rchb.f. 1852 Photo by © Franco Pupulpin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Disected Flower Photos by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

Common Name The Turkish Foot Stool Acineta [Refers to the flowers similarity to a foot stool]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Panama at elevations of 2800 meters as a cold growing epiphyte with plicate leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an elongate, pendulous, several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bot. Zeit. (Berlin) 10: 705. 1852; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Orchid Digest vol 70 #4 2006 photo fide;

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