Eurystyles alticola Dod 1978
Photo by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom
TYPE Drawing by © Dod
Common Name The High Elevation Eurystyles
Flower Size .24" [.6 cm]
Found in the Dominican Republic & Haiti in seasonally wet broadleaf forests on branches at elevations around 1650 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, humus loving epiphyte with several, basal, rosulate, obovate to elliptic, fleshy, translucent gray-green, waxy, acute, denticulate leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect to nutant, densely puberulent, to 1.6" [to 4 cm] long, capitate, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts that are externally ciliate and with cilate margins all carrying fleshy small flowers.
"Distinguished from the other 2 species in Hispanola by the larger plants, the larger flowers in the exposed part and if one folds the bract back, one sees that the flower at its sac-like base is wider than the others." Dod 1978
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Moscosoa 1: 3:50 Dod 1978 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
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