Eurystyles standleyi Ames 1925
Photo by © Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Side View Of Flower Photo by © Daniel Jimenez TYPE Drawing Photo by © Stanley Common Name or Meaning Standley's Eurystyles [American Collector of species]
Flower Size
Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1400 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a basal rosette of membraneous, olive green, waxy, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, margins finely and shortly ciliolate leaves that blooms in the winter on a short, densely pubescent, 1.6 to 3” [4 to 7.5 cm] long overall, rachis .6 to 1.2” [1.5 to 3 cm] long, densely many flowered head of close set flowers with rhombic-lanceolate, long acuminate, pilose floral bbracts that are as long as the flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Schedul. Orch. 9: 9-13, f. 2. 1925 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica & Panama Dressler 1993; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #4 2006 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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