Macroclinium robustum Pupulin & Mora-Ret. 1997
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez
Drawing by © Franco Pupulin
Common Name The Robust Macroclinium [refers to the stout appearance of the flowers]
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1300 to 1850 meters as a miniature sized, to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to ovate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 5, leaf-bearing sheaths with hyaline, scarious margins and carrying, rugose, laterally compressed, linear-lanceolate, subfalcate, acute leaves, the basal ones articulate to the sheaths that blooms in the summer on a lateral, peduncle filiform, provided with 2 triangular, acute bracts, lax, 3.45" [8.6 cm] long, 11 to 17 flowered inflorescence with a single, triangular, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
Distinguished from others in Costa Rica by the longer inflorescence and the papillose-hirsute calli and from M ramonense by the long and stout claw of the lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999; Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 photo/drawing ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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