Beloglottis costaricensis (Rchb.f.) Schltr.1920

Leaves in Situ Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

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Common Name The Costa Rican Beloglottis

Flower Size .25" [.33 cm]

Found in Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Panama Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations around 50 to 1100 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophytic orchid with basal, membranaceous, elliptic to obovate, acute to acuminate, gradulally narrowing below into the winged petiolate base leaves that are often not present at flowering that blooms in the late winter through summer on a spicate, racemose, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, lax;y few to many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying violet scented flowers

Synonyms Beloglottis bicaudata (Ames) Garay 1978; Gyrostachys costaricensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes bicaudata Ames 1922; *Spiranthes costaricensis Rchb.f.1855

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Bonplandia 3(15/16): 214. 1855 as Spiranthes costaricensis; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1873 as Spiranthes costaricensis drawing; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664. 1891 as Gyrostachys costaricensis; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 167. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Spiranthes beloglottis; .

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