Cryptocentrum latifolium Schltr. 1923 SUBGENUS Cryptocentrum Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name or Meaning The Broad-Leafed Cryptocentrum

Flower Size 3/4” [2.1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte with an erect stem carrying distichous, broad, strap-shaped, conduplicate below leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect to lateral, basal, 4” [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence and has flowers that are deliciously fragrant at night. This species is distinguished from others more by the broad, strap-shaped leaves and the basal inflorescence enveloped by many acute bracts with the acute floral bract larger and enveloping the ovary and spur than the flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list as a syn of C radicosa, IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 247. 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 032 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1308 Atwood 1989; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005;

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