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Drawing by © Fritz Hamer

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Common Name The Eared Eurystyles

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm] long

Found in Santa Ana department of El Salvador, Herrera province of Costa Rica, Chiriqui province of Panama and Antioquia and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a corymb of basal, lustrous green, apiculate, ciliate, lightly undulate, long petiolae base leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a pendent, 2" long, enveloped in green-fimbriate-ciliate bracts, capitate, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence carrying diurnally scented flowers.

E auriculata is the plant on the left above, to the right is the often cited a synonomous E cotyledon .

Often cited as a synonym of E cotyledon but differs in the smaller sized, shiny, darker colored plant, twisted bracts and other floral differences.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 86. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;

Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: 108 Hamer 1981

Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: 109 Hamer 1981 drawing fide

Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: lamina 5 Hamer 1981 photo ok;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica & Panama Dressler 1993;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo ok; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 154 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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