Eurystyles cornu-bovis Szlach. 1992
SECTION Dresslerianthus
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TYPE Drawing by © The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Cows Horn Eurystyles
Flower Size
Found in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica and Chiriqui and Veraguas provinces of Panama at elevations of 650 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a stem carrying a basal rosette of 5 to 6, lanceolate to elliptic, acute, non-ciliolate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a capitate, few to several flowered inflorecence with ovate-lanceolate, narrowing towards the apex, acute, non-ciliolate margin floral bracts and carrying small, erect flowers .
“Eurystyles cornu-bovis differs from all previously described species of the genus primarily in the lack of cilia at the edges of leaves and floral bracts. Another characteristic feature are thickenings on the auricles of the lip, similar to bovine horns. The species occupies an isolated position within the genus and in my opinion fully deserves to be isolated in a separate section.” Szlachetcko 1992
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37(1): 16, 18-19, f. 3B, f. 5. Szlach. 1992 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 162 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 163 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawings fide
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