Cischweinfia dasyandra (Rchb. f.) Dressler & N.H. Williams 1970 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of J&L Orchids and their Orchid Homepage and Charles Marden Fitch

Common Name The Hirsute Pollina Cischweinfia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in premontane forests at elevations of 700 to 1150 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with oblong, laterally compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped by several, distichous, imbricating, conduplicate, lower leafless and upper leafbearing sheaths carrying a single, apical, linear lanceolate leaf that is conduplicate at the base which blooms on a short, basal, somewhat pendulous, 1 3/5" to 2 3/4" [4 to 7 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured growth that blooms in the summer.

Synonyms Leucohyle dasyandra (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920; *Trichopilia dasyandra Rchb. f. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1413 Atwood 1992; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005