Crossoglossa aurantilineata Pupulin 2000

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name or Meaning The Orange Lined Crossoglossa [refers to the coloration on the lip]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in very wet, cool locations at eleavtions around 1400 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, short stem carrying narrowly elliptic to linear-lanceolate, retuse, membraneaceous leaves with undulate margins and blooms in the spring on a terminal, elongate, strongly four-angled, warty ridged, erect to arching, successively many flowered inflorescence. with conspicuous, triangualr, acuminate to attenuate floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Lindleyana 15: 23: 2000.

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