Isochilus carnosiflorus Lindl. 1844
Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage
Common Name The Fleshy Flowered Isochilus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of sealevel to 1900 meters as a minaiture to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with thin stems completely enveloped by leaf bearing tubular acuminate sheaths and carrying linear-lanceolate, obliquely retuse apically, gradually narrows below into the clasping base and blooms on a terminal, few flowered inflorescence occuring in the fall and winter.
Synonyms Isochilus crassiflorus A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Isochilus linearis var. carnosiflorus (Lindl.) Correll 1941
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 785 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #9 2015 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo ok; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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