Macroclinium paniculatum (Ames & C. Schweinf.) Dodson 1984
Photos by © Karremans,Drawing by Pupulin Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR
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Common Name The Paniculate Macroclinium
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 600 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a fan of leaves around a inconspicuous sub-orbicular, compressed, sulcate pseudobulb enveloped basally by 4 scarious leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, densely rugose, conduplicate, compressed, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute leaves articulate to the imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths that blooms in the late winter through spring on a sub-umbellate, surpassing the leaves, racemose to successively paniculate, each successive sub-umbellate branch carrying a few flowers, provided with conspicuous, triangular bracts, to 1.4" [to 4 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with scarious, lanceolate, spreading, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms *Notylia paniculata Ames & C. Schweinf. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Epidendra Website CR ; *Icones. Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 938. Dodson 1984 [M dalestromii]; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1033 Hamer 1984 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999; Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 drawing/photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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