Polycycnis blancoi G. Gerlach 2004
Photos courtesy of Franco Pupulin © and the Epidendra website
Common Name Blanco's Polycycnis [Costa Rican Botanist Current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with pyriform to ovoid, slightly compressed, pseudobulbs with an apical maroon ring, carrying a single, apical, erect, plicate, 7 nerved, elliptical, acute leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, pendant, 10" [25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lankesteriana 4(1): 67. Gerlach 2004 drawing/photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #8 2017 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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