Dimerandra latipetala Siegerist 1985
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name or Meaning The Broad Petaled Dimerandra
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in lowlands and islands near sea level to 500 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a thickened, leafy, flexuous stem with distichous, linear-lanceolate leaves that are obliquely retuse apically and blooms in the spring through fall on an abbreviated, racemose, successively few flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem.
Cited as a synonym of Dimerandra emarginata , I have left them separate for now.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1013a Dodson 1985 drawing ok;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30: 211 Siegerist 1986 drawing fide
AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 4 1987 photo fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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