Cleistes costaricensis Christenson 1992

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Costa Rican Cleistes

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1100 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying sessile, grey green, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Lindleyana 7(4): 206. 1992.; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1511 Atwood & Mora 1993 drawing fide

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