Chaubardiella chasmatochila (Fowlie) Garay 1969 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Maw-Like Lip Chaubardiella

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Colombia in premontane and lower montane rainforests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with no pseudobulbs and deep green, concave, lanceolate, basally conduplicate, sulcate, apicaulate leaves and foliaceous bracts blooming in the summer and fall on a basal, single flowered , 1 3/5" to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long inflorescence arising on a newly matured growth with a non-resupinate, pendulous flower.

Synonyms *Stenia chasmatochila Fowlie 1965

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1410 Mora & Atwood 1992; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 1 1994; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993

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