Chaubardia klugii (C. Schweinf.) Garay 1973 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

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Common Name Klug's Chaubardia

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 200 to 1700 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with small [when present] flattenned, pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several sheaths with the uppermost being leaf-bearing carrying a single, apical, thin, obovate, acuminate, plicate leaf that narrows basally to become subpetiolate and blooms at any time of the year on an erect, axillary, single flowered, 2" [5 cm] long inflorescence..

Synonyms Cochleanthes klugii (C.Schweinf.) R.E.Schult. & Garay 1959; *Zygopetalum klugii C Schweid. 1952

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones planetarum Tropicarum plate 910 Dodson 1984; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990