Coccineorchis bracteosa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982
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Common Name The Bracteate Coccineorchis
Found in Nicaragua, Cartago and Heridia provinces of Costa Rica, Chiriqui province of Panama and Ecuador in lower montane forests and in wet oak, cloud forests at elevations of 800 to 2900 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long rhizome giving rise to a few, basal, ovate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, more or less oblique, acute to acuminate, abruptly narrowing below into the elongate, narrowly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an erect, peduncle 12.4 to 21.6" [31 to 54 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4, red, tubular, triangular, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 2.4 to 5" [6 to 12.5 cm] long, red, lax below, dense above, several flowered inflorescence with oblong to broadly lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, with hyaline margins, glabrous, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers
"C bracteosa is unique in the genus with its roots distributed along the rhizome and it has the longest floral bracts of the genus as well, measuring 1.84 to 2.48" [4.6 to 6.2 cm] long, which are twice as long as the flowers." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Spiranthes bracteosa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) L.O.Williams 1956; Stenorrhynchos bracteosum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Schedul. Orchid. 8: 6 Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925 as Stenorrhynchos bracteosum
Ceiba 5: 33 L O Williams 1956 as Spiranthes bracteosa nom. illeg.
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 306 Garay 1980 publ. 1982
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #2 2006 photo fide;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 196 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide
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