Cryptocentrum flavum Schltr. 1913
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid FOundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name The Yellow Cryptocentrum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 30 to 1600 meters as an erect to ascendent mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped basally by polystichous leaf bases and carrying straight to slightly recurved, usually sprinkled with dull red-maroon, linear to linear-oblong, hemi-cylindric to subtriquetrous in cross-section, obscurly keeled underneath leaves that blooms at most any time of the year, on 1 to 4, arising from the base of the stem, simultaneous, erect, spreading to descending, .6 to 2.8" [1.5 to 7 cm] long, shorter to just slightly longer than the leaves, successively single flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 photo plant only; Fieldiana Botany Flora Costaricensis Family #39 Atwood and Mora 1999; 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 ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Cryptocentrum sp. #135 drawing/photo seems to be; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide
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