Leochilus inconspicuus (Kraenzl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2008
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Wilson Botanical Garden Website
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Common Name The Inconspicuous Leochilus
Flower Size tiny
Found in Costa Rica in low elevation cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing twig epiphyte with a large suborbicular to elliptic-ovoid, rugose with age pseudobulb subtended by 1 to 2, foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single apical, coriaceous, carinate, elliptic to lanceolate, conduplicate, usually bilobed apically, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 1 to 2, lateral, descending, branched, 2,4 to 8" [6 to 20 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Hybochilus inconspicuus (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920; Leochilus parviflorus Standl. & L.O.Williams 1951; *Rodriguezia inconspicua Kraenzl. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996 drawing/photo fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 as Hybochilus inconspicuous drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Hybochilus inconspicuus photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008
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