Chaubardiella subquadrata (Schltr.) Garay 1969

Photo by © Arturo Carillo

Another Flower Color, possibly C tigrina var flava

Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Another Flower Color not = C tigrina var flava

Photo by of © Orquivalle

TYPE Drawing of Kefersteinia subquadrata

TYPE Drawing of Kefersteinia subquadrata © by Schlechter

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Common Name The Almost Square Chaubardiella [refers to the shape of the lip when expanded]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 400 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a few subpetiolate, dark green leaves held in a fan shape that blooms in the spring on a short, pendant to lateral, single flowered inflorescence and carrying a non-resupinate flower.

CAUTION!!!!!!!The first photo is what I feel is the real C subquadrata, notice the square lip without an acute apex and the triangular column that is thicker towards the apex than below matching Schlechter's type description and drawing, the second photo shows what is known commercially in Costa Rica as C subqudrata and the third photo matches Patricia Harding's photo [2008] exactly but she mentions herself [pers comm. 2020] that she feels that this photo really is of a yellow form of C tigrina.

Synonyms Chondrorhyncha subquadrata (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1956; *Kefersteinia subquadrata Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 300. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Kefersteinia subquadrata; Native Colombian Orchids COS Vol 1 1990 photo fide to the third photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 27 1648 - 1712 Brieger 1993; Manual De Plantas de Costa Rica Volumen 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide to the second photo see CAUTION; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide to 3rd photo see desription not = C tigrina; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing ok/photo not; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #12 2015 photo not= C chasmatochila; Of Men and Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 type drawing of Kefersteinia subquadrata fide/Drawing of C subquadrata by Franco Pupulin not = C chasmatochila/ photo not!! = C chasmatochila;

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