Crossoglossa fratrum (Schltr.) Dressler ex Dodson 1993

Photo by Bogarin © and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Brotherly Crossoglossa

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Nicaragua, alajuela, CartagoPuntarenasCosta Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama in mid-montane forests at elevations of 1400 to 1500 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with an erect stem carrying 8 to 18, oblanceolate to obovate, acute, petiolate base leaf the blooms in the at most any time of the year, but most often in the later summer on an erect, peduncle, 3.52" [8.8 to 13 cm] long, rachis to 24" [0 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with with lanceolate, acuminate, longer to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale to fresh green colored flowers.

"Somewhat similar to C sprucei but differs in the petiolate base leaves, longer inflorescence and somewhat larger lip of a different shape." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms *Liparis fratrum Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 92. 1923 as Liparis fratrum;

*Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dressler/Dodson 1993 as Crossoglossa fratra;

Orquideologa Vol 20 #3 1997 photo fide;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;

Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo fide;

Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 as Liparis fratum photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:67 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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