!Chaubardia surinamensis Rchb. f. 1852 Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Bergstrom Orchids Homepage

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Common Name The Surinam Chaubardia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial or semi-epiphytic orchid from Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 200 to 400 meters in hot tropical lowlands on banks near creeks with small, cryptic, ovoid, lightly complanate pseudobulbs that have a vestigal or undeveloped apical leaf and lanceolate to oblanceolate, long-attenuate to the very slender conduplicate petiole, acute, articulated to the distichous, imbricatiing foliaceous sheaths that blooms on an erect to arching, 3 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long scapes arising on a maturing pseudobulb with a single flower held a mid-leaf height occuring in nature in winter through early spring that can be treated as a Chonrorhyncha but warmer.

Synonyms Hoehneella santos-nevesii Ruschi 1945;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 516 Vasquez & Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 216 Bennet & Christenson 1995; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 1 1994; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979;

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