Chondroscaphe bicolor (Rolfe) Dressler 2001
TYPE Drawing by Rolfe and the Epidendra Website
Common Name The Two-Colored Chondrorhyncha
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama on the Caribbean watershed in premontane wet forests at elevations of 900 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic orchid with a short stem enveloped completely by imbricate leafbearing, strongly conduplicate-ancipitous sheaths and carrying 3 to 7, oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate-ligulate, acuminate basally, conduplicate leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an axillary, short to 3.2" [8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with in pairs a infundibular, ovate, acute, outer floral bract and an inner elliptic-lanceolate one that holds the flower below the leaves.
Synonyms *Chondrorhyncha bicolor Rolfe 1894; Chondrorhyncha endresii Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 406 Dodson 1989 as Chondrorhyncha bicolor drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992 as Chondrorhyncha bicolor photo not = C atrilinguis; Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orquideologia 21: 3 Dressler 2000 photo fide; Manual De Plantas de Costa Rica Volumen 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Manual De Plantas de Costa Rica Volumen 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as C estradae; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #1 Pupulin & Dressler 2009 drawing/photo; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as C endresii photo fide
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