!Crossoglossa blephariglottis (Schltr.) Dressler ex Dodson 1993
Photo by © Alexey Yakovlev and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing as Malaxis blephariglottis by © John Atwood
Common Name The Fringed Lip Crossoglottis
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and western Panama in wet montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with short stems enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying many, elliptic to oblanceolate-ligulate, acute to acuminate, membraneous, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, erect, elongate, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, entire to lacerate, cucullate floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers
CAUTION!! The photo above is close but not exact to C blephariglottis, as the lip is not visibly acute [it may be apically revolute and so not visble as acute in the photo] at the apex so please use with caution, all other aspects appear correct.
Synonyms Malaxis blephariglottis (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Microstylis blephariglottis Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 202 Schlechter 1913 as Microstylis blephariglottis; ;
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 35: 84 Ames 1922 as Malaxis blephariglottis
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Malaxis blephariglottis;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1331 Atwood 1989 as Malaxis blephariglottis drawing fide to the drawing;
*Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson/Escobar 1993;
Field Guide tothe Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Orquideologa Vol 20 #3 1997 drawing/photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2005 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:56 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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