!Solenocentrum costaricense Schltr. 1911
Photos by © Kerry Dressler and Bogarin and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name The Costa Rican Solenocentrum
Flower Size
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama at elevations around 1400 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a short, creeping stem carrying 3 to 5, basal, rosulate, thin, convolute, broadly elliptical-ovate, 7 veined, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, enveloped by rather broad, glabrous, sheathing bracts, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, below longer than the ovaries, above slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
"Easily recognized by the long, cylindrical spur formed from the basak oart of the lip combined with the bilobed petals." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 163 Schlechter 1911
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1491 Atwood 1992 drawing fide;
Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10: 763 2003 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 2004 Dodson drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 85 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 86 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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