Barbosella circinata Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Barbosella Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name The Curled Barbosella

Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]

Found in Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with ascending to erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, minutely subpustulate, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a slender, erect, 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a close bract below the middle and a thin, tubular, oblique floral bract carrying a non-resupinate flower.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst - Dungs 1977; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide

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