Baskervilla auriculata Garay 1978Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Eared Baskervilla [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .2" [6 mm]
Found in Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations around 1100 to 2500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying a basal rosette of ovate, acute to acuminate, basally rounded, long petillate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, 10" [25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescnece carrying non-resupinate flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 905 Dodson 1984; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1994