Acineta densa Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1 Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
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Common Name or Meaning The Densly Flowered Acineta
Flower Size 2 2/5" [6 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia 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 flowered inflorescence with papery bracts and very fleshy, cup-like, vanilla scented, long-lived flowers occuring in the spring and early summer.
Synonyms Acineta gymnostele Schltr. 1917
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1991; Vanishing Beauty Native Costa Rican Orchids Pupulin 2005;
