Chondroscaphe laevis Dressler 2001 Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Common Name The Smooth Chondroscaphe

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found only in Costa Rica in moist cloud forests at elevations of 950 to 1200 meters on shady tree trunks as a small to just medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a loose fan of distichous leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, .8 to 2.6" [2 to 6.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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