Cryptocentrum standleyi Ames 1925 SUBGENUS Caulescentes
Photos by © Pupulin The Epidendra Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Photo by © Al Bickell.
Photo by © Mark Whitten.
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Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in wet montane forests as a miniature, hot to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters with a short stem carrying spiral, triquetrous, fleshy, acicular, acute leaves that are basally clasping and blooms in the fall and winter on a lateral, 3/4 to 1 1/5" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered, wiry inflorescence with 3 distant, acute, tubular bracts including the floral bract and carry dull red to yellow flowers
Synonyms Cryptocentrum brenesii Schlechter non pub.; Cryptocentrum longiscapum Brieger 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Sched. Orch. 6: 9: 55. 1925; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1309 Atwood 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 as C longiscapum drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as C longiscapum; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing good; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #4 2017 as Maxillaria standlyi photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 as C longiscapum drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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