Monophyllorchis microstyloides (Rchb.f.) Garay 1962 Photo by © Sean Fisher and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Leaf Photo by David Jubineau Copyright ©

Full shadeHotTo Cool Fall

Common Name The Small Stigma Monophyllorchis

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cauca department of Colombia and Tungurahua province of Ecuador in extremely wet, montane cloud forests as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid at elevations of 400 to 1700 meters with a recumbent stem enveloped by a few, acunimate sheaths and carrying a single, cordate, heavily veined, apical leaf that is dark red beneath and linear, white spotted above that blooms in the fall on a terminal, brown, 4" [10 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with a few flowers opening over a period of time.

Synonyms Monophyllorchis colombiana Schltr. 1920; Monophyllorchis maculata Garay 1978; Pogonia microstyloides Rchb.f. 1886

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as M colombiana; * Studies in American orchids VI Canadian Journal of Botany 34(2):241-260 Garay 1962; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 genus only; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as M maculata drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as M microstyloides drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 168 Dodson 1980 as M maculata drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 875 Dodson 1983 as drawing hmm; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as M maculata drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as M maculata drawing/photo good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing hmm; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok;

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