!Acostaea costaricensis Schltr.1923
Photo by © Moises Behar
Photo by © Mulder & Mulder-Roelfsema
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Costa Rican Acostea
Flower Size 1/16" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica at 100 to 1000 meters in elevation on mossy limbs in cool, moist tropical forests with orange and guava trees as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing caespitose epiphyte with a short ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base lead where they can flower at any time of the year on an erect to suberect, to 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, successively few [3 to 8] flowered, fractiflex scape with a single flower at a time held well above the leaves.
Synonyms Acostaea colombiana Garay 1974; Acostaea costaricensis subsp. colombiana (Garay) Luer 1987; Acostaea costaricensis subsp. unicornis (Luer) Luer 1987; Acostaea glandulata P.Ortiz 1982; Acostaea pleurothalloides Schltr. 1923; Acostaea unicornis Luer 1983; Specklinia colombiana (Garay) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia mirifica Pridgeon & Chase 2001; Specklinia unicornis (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 22. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 102. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 284. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 285. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as A pleurothalloides; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Orquideologia Vol 13 No 3 1979; Orquideologia Vol 15 #2-3 1982 drawing/photo fide; Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 as Acostaea costaricensis subsp. colombiana drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 Acostaea costaricensis subsp. unicornis drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo ok; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 001 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Orchids of Panama Williams 1980; The Field Guide to the Orchids Of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #3 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklinia mirifica; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42-43 pg 2624 - 2756 Brieger 2001 Drawing good; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; Orquideologia Vol 28 #2 2011 photo ok; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 as A glandulata photo fide
Acostaea costaricensis subsp. unicornis (Luer) Luer 1987
Photo by © Adam Karremans
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Form found in Panama
Synonyms Acostaea unicornis Luer 1983; Specklinia unicornis (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Phytologia 54: 379 Luer 1983 as Acostaea unicornis;
*Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Acostea, Condylago and Porroglossum Vol 4 1987 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:259 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia unicornis;
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