Jacquiniella globosa (Jacq.) Schltr. 1920 Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor
Common Name The Spheroid Jacquiniella
Flower Size less than 1/8" [3mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil at 200 to 2400 meters in elevation as an epiphyte on Arbutus trees along dry stream bed, oak forested hillside. A miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that has terete, fractiflex stems and terete, conduplicate basally clasping leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, sessile, one to 2 flowered inflorescence with the flowers held at the apex of the stem and opening successively.
Synonyms Cymbidium globosum Sw. 1799; Epidendrum geraldoi Porto & Brade 1935; *Epidendrum globosum Jacq. 1760; Epidendrum kuhlmannii Schltr. 1925; Epidendrum rudolfianum Hoehne 1951; Isochilus globosus (Jacq.) Lindl. 1831
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 791 Dodson 1982; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 2002; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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