!Solenocentrum costaricense Schltr. 1911
Inflorescence Photos by © Kerry Dressler and Bogarin and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name The Costa Rican Solenocentrum
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a short, creeping stem carrying 4 to 5, basal, thin, convolute, broadly elliptical-ovate, 7 veined leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 8 to 10" [20 t o25 cm] long overall, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence enveloped by rather broad sheaths and lanceolate, longer than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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 2003 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 2004 Dodson drawing fide;
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