Acineta chrysantha (C. Morren) Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1

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Common Name or Meaning The Golden-Yellow Flowered Acineta

Flower Size 2 2/5" [6 cm]

Found in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1300 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, ovoid to cylindrical, glossy olive green, laterally compressed, finely sulcate pseudobulbs with a basal sheath and carrying 2 to 4, terminal, thick, glabrous, plicate, oblanceolate, acute, stalked leaves that blooms on pendant, racemose, [70 cm] long, several to many [20 to 30] flowered inflorescence with papery bracts and very fleshy, cup-like, vanilla scented, long-lived flowers occuring in the spring and early summer.

Synonyms Acineta densa Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1; Acineta warscewiczii (Kunth) Klotzsch 1852; *Neippergia chrysantha C. Morren 1849

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1983; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1991; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;