!Centroglossa macroceras Barb. Rodr. 1881

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto

Another Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Large-Horned Centroglossa

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in the Serra Do Mar of Rio and Sao Paulo States in Brazil as a miniature sized, cool to warm growng epiphyte with ovoid-oblong, slightly compressed, smooth becoming sulcate with age pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, canoe-shaped leaf that is attenuate below into the pseudopetiole and blooms on a shorter than the leaf, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Centroglossa greeniana var. aurea Cogn. 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1975;

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