Crossoglossa eustachys (Schltr.) Dressler ex Dodson 1993
Drawing by © K Wikiewicz
TYPE Drawing by © [Schlechter] Ames
Common Name The Well Formed Inflorescence Crossoglossa
Flower Size
Found in San Jose province of Costa Rica and Panjama province of Panama at elevations around 400 to 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a caulescent stem enveloped by imbricating leaf sheaths carrying linear-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and sprinf on a terminal, erect, shortly pedunculate, peduncle 4.2" [10.5 cm] long, evaginate, rachis [32.5 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, margins erose lacerate, twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers with a transluscent pink green lip with a darker central stripe.
"Similar to C neirynkiana, Crossoglossa oliveirae and C tipulides but easily recognized by its straight, petant leaf bases whereas the others haved curved leaf bases that overlap each other. Often confusded in the past as C tipuloides but it has larger flowers .4 to .48" [10 to 12 mm] long. Vegetatively similar to C aurantilineata but it has shorter leaves, smaller flowers and a much blunter, narrowly obovate lip." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Liparis eustachys Schltr. 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 91. Schlechter 1923 as Liparis eustachys;
*Native Ecuadorian Orchids 1: 149 Dodson 15 Nov. 1993;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:52 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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