Jacquiniella aporophylla (L.O.Williams) Dressler 1966 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Costa Rica Flickr Photo Website

Common Name The Plain, Insignificant Leaved Jacquinella

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in pluvial forests at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with in a fan, laterally compressed, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the fall winter and spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle 1.6 to 6" [4 to 15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Briegeria aporophylla (L.O.Williams) Senghas 1980; *Epidendrum equitantifolium var. aporophyllum L.O.Williams 1940

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as epidendrum equaintifolium var arpophyllum; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Dressleriella aporophylla; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;

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