Centroglossa macroceras Barb. Rodr. 1881

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto

Another Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Large-Horned Centroglossa

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in the Serra Do Mar of Rio and Sao Paulo States in Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, cool to warm growng epiphyte with clustered, ovoid-oblong, slightly compressed, smooth becoming sulcate with age pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, canoe-shaped leaf that is attenuate below into the pseudopetiole and blooms on a shorter than the leaf, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Centroglossa greeniana var. aurea Cogn. 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing okacin; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1975; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo; Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007

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