Chaubardiella subquadrata (Schltr.) Garay 1969 Photo courtesy of © Arturo Carillo

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Common Name The Almost Square Chaubardiella

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 400 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a few subpetiolate, dark green leaves in a fan shape with a short, pendant to lateral, single flowered inflorescence carrying a non-resupinate flowers that occurs in the spring.

Synonyms Chondrorhyncha subquadrata (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1956; *Kefersteinia subquadrata Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids COS Vol 1 1990; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005