Coeliopsis hyacinthosma Rchb. f. 1872 Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Gilberto Escobar Copyright ©, Leslie Garay Archives

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Common Name The Hyacinth Smelling Coeliopsis

Flower Size 4/5" [2.25 cm]

Found in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of sealevel to 1200 meters in lower montane forests as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid or subcylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped by papery, basal sheatsh and carries 2 to 4 oblanceolate, plicate, acuminate leaves conduplicate into the petiolate base, that blooms in the spring and summer on a dense, basal, pendant, 1 5/8" to 3 2/5" [4 to 8.5 cm] long, subcapitate, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence with chartaceous, lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts carrying very fleshy, waxy, fragrant flowers that smell strongly of hyacinth or raspberries.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;