Cochleanthes palatina Senghas 1990 Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and Orchideen Lenhard

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Common Name or Meaning The Palatinate Cochleanthes [a German Orchid Club]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found near La Paz Bolivia and in Peru in wet montane forests as a small sized, fan-shaped, pseudobulbless, cool to warm growing epiphyte with a stem completely enveloped by lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute to acuminmate, articulated and conduplicate leaves that are dorsally keeled and graduate in size that blooms in the summer on an axillary, terete, 2.4" to 3 1/4" [6 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a single close basal bract and an ovate, acute, loose floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 018 Bennett & Christenson 1993