Goodyera erosa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934Collection sheet and Drawing by by © Ames, F.T. Hubb. & C. Schweinf and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Erose Goodyera

Flower Size Very Small

Found in Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1180 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a decumbent, stem-like rhizome giving rise to an erect, short stem enveloped entirely by loose, imbricate bases of dilated petioles carrying 4, crowded, ovate-lanceolate, oblique, acute to acuminate, cuneate narrowed below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, finely pubescent, peduncle 6.4 to 10" [16 to 25 cm] long, enveloped by 5 to 10, ascending, lanceolate sheaths, raceme 1.85" to 4.4" [4.7 to 11 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, often longer than the ovary but shorter than the floral bracts.

Synonyms *Epipactis erosa Ames & C.Schweinf., Schedul. Orchid. 10: 9 (1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; ; Schedul. Orch. 6: 12-14. Ames 1923. as Epipactis erosa; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;

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