Baskervilla colombiana Garay 1953> Photo by © O Perez & E Parra and The Wikipedia website

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Common Name or Meaning The Colombia Baskervilla

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela in exposed cloud forests and in elfin forests at elevations around 1100 to 1220 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with erect, basal, elliptic-ovate, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 16" [40 cm] long overall, rachis 6" [15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with 4 distant sheaths and ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms Baskervilla nicaraguensis Hamer & Garay 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 610 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as B nicaraguensis drawing fide;

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