Solenocentrum costaricense Schltr.1911 Photo by © The Field Museum and their Neotropical Herbarium Specimens Website

Common Name The Costa Rican Solenocentrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in wet cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a short, creeping stem carrying basal, broadly elliptic-ovate, 7 veined, acute, long petiolate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 16" [40 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence enveloped by acuminate, pubscent bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257 - 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1491 Atwwod 1992 drawing ok; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003 photo; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian ORchids Vo 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide

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