Leochilus puertoricensis M.W. Chase 1986 Photo by Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Another Flower Photo by Mark W Chase

Common Name or Meaning The Puerto Rican Leochilus

Flower Size

Found in Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique and St Vincent at elevations of sea level to 200 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, broadly ovoid, very compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 4, leaf-beaering sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, linear-oblong to oblong lanceolate, acute, dorsally carinate, basally conduplicate leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to more, axillary, 3.6" [9 cm] long, arching to pendant, several flowered, racemose to paniculate inflorescence with narrowly triangular, apiculate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematic Botany Monographs Leochilus Vol 14 Chase 1986 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo; The Orchids of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000

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