Systeloglossum acuminatum Ames & C. Schweinf. 1930

Another Angle Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

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Common Name The Acuminate Systeloglossum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found only in Costa Rica in montane rainforests at elavations of 1100 to 2000 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindric, narrow, smooth, compressed speudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 7, oblong-lanceolate, foliaceous sheaths and carryinga single, apical, erect, linear-elliptic, conduplicate towards the base, thin, asymmetric, attenuate leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on a lateral, racemose to few branched panicle, 4 ot 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence.

Separated from S costaricensis by the smaller pseudobulb, the more slender leaf, the somewhat longer column foot, the less dense inflorescence with longer acuminate floral bracts and the flowers with less brown or purple suffused color.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 4 1970; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996; Fieldiana, Flora of Costa Rica, Family #39 Orchidaceae, Maxillareae Atwood & Retana 1999 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 specimen sheet

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