Prosthechea ortizii (Dressler) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998

Drawing by Dressler and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Ortiz's Prosthechea [Costa Rican Director of San Ramon Nature Reserve current]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Alajuela province of Costa Rica at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with narrowly pyriform-ovate, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblanceolate-oblong, narrowing basally, obtuse to subacute leaf that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, [12 to 24 cm] long, racemose, few flowered inflorescence with deltoid, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

Encyclia ortizii is closely allied to Pollardia campylostalix , Prosthechea fortunae , and Prosthechea glauca . The relatively slender column resembles that of Pollardia campylostalix, while the sharply defined, rounded lateral lobes of the lip resemble those of Prosthechea . glauca and Prosthechea fortunae. It is quite distinctive in the high, keeled callus and the orientation of the lip." Dressler 1995

Synonyms *Encyclia ortizii Dressler 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Novon 5(2): 140. Dressler 1995 as Encyclia ortizii drawing fide;

*Phytologia 82(5): 379. Higgins 1997[1998];

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004;

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