Chaubardiella pacuarensis Jenny 1989 Photo photo © by Franco Pupulin

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Common Name Rio Pacuare' Chaubardiella [A River in Costa Rica]

Flower Size 2 1/4" [5.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama to Ecuador in wet tropical forests at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte without pseudobulbs that has somewhat concave, lanceolate leaves that are conduplicate at the base with a basal, pendant, 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a non-resupinate flower occuring in the late summer and fall.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1411 Mora & Atwwod 1992; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005