Cryptocentrum standleyi Ames 1925 SUBGENUS Caulescentes Photo courtesy of Al Bickell.

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Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in wet montane forests as a miniature, hot to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters with a short stem carrying spiral, triquetrous, fleshy, acicular, acute leaves that are basally clasping and blooms in the fall and winter on a lateral, 3/4 to 1 1/5" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered, wirey inflorescence with 3 distant, acute, tubular bracts including the floral bract and carry dull red to yellow flowers

Synonyms Cryptocentrum brenesii Schlechter non pub.; Cryptocentrum longiscapum Brieger 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Sched. Orch. 6: 9: 55. 1925; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1309 Atwood 1989; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997;Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;