Coccineorchis standleyi (Ames) Garay 1982 Photo by Wilfried Löderbusch

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz Copyright ©

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Common Name Standley's Coccineorchis [American Botanist early 1900's]

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in dense, wet, montane primary forests in tall trees at elevations of 400 to 2750 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial? or epiphyte with fleshy and somewhat pilose roots carrying elliptic leaves that have elongate petioles and are basally clasping envelopeing the stem completely and blooms on a terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, racemose, apically densely compact, many flowered inflorescence arising from a spathe and having 3 to 4 inflated, loose, tubular, acuminate bracts as well as floral bracts that surround the apical ball of variable colored flowers from white to red and occuring in the spring through fall.

Synonyms Spiranthes standleyi (Ames) L.O. Williams 1950; *Stenorrhynchos standleyi Ames 1925

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1493 Atwood 1993

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