Hormidium racemiferum (Dressler) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo by Franco Pupulin.
Photo by Wesley Higgins .
TYPE Drawing by © Robert Dressler
Comparison Drawing of H pseudopygmaeum, H racemiferum and H pygmaeum
Drawing by © N Oledrzynska/Krol
Common Name The Racemose Hormidium
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in San Jose province of Costa Rica and Panama in wet forests at elevations around 1200 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical leaves that blooms in the summer on a racemose, terminal, arising through a spathe, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence thin, triangular-lanceoalte, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying small, fleshy flowers.
Differs from H pygmaeum in the relatively large and many flowerd inflorescence and the lip. Differs from H pseudopygmaeum in the shorter, thinner pseudobulbs and the evenly tapering floral bracts and in the lip.
Synonyms *Encyclia racemifera Dressler 1996; Prosthechea racemifera (Dressler) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana 11: 37 Dressler 1996 as Encyclia racemifera;
Phytologia 82: 380 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea racemiferum;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Prosthechea racemifera; *Cattleyas and Their Relatives the Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2002; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Prosthechea racemifera photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:395 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photos fide
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