Eurystyles standleyi Ames 1925
SECTION Eurystyles
Photo by © Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
TYPE Drawing by © Ames
Common Name or Meaning Standley's Eurystyles [American Collector of species]
Flower Size
Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico, Guatemala, Santa Ana department of El Salvador, Cartago and San Jose provinces of Costa Rica and Chiriqui department of Panama at elevations of 1400 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a basal rosette of membraneous, olive green, waxy, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, margins finely and shortly ciliolate leaves that blooms in the winter on a short, densely pubescent, 1.6 to 3” [4 to 7.5 cm] long overall, rachis .6 to 1.2” [1.5 to 3 cm] long, densely many flowered head of close set flowers with rhombic-lanceolate, long acuminate, pilose floral bracts that are as long as the flowers.
"Characterized by having a more or less ribbon-like lip lamina much wider at the base than at the apex, almoist entire or inconspicuously consrticted just below the apex wih broadly spread large, basal auricles, almost perpendicular to the lip axis. The lip apex of the type sp[eimen is adorned with a prominent ridge which has not been found in any other specimen." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Schedul. Orch. 9: 9, f. 2. 1925
Schedul. Orch. 9: 11, f. 2. 1925 drawing fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica & Panama Dressler 1993;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #4 2006 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 152 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 153 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawings fide
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