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Common Name The Guatemalan Cryptarrhena

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Beliza, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet lowland forests at elevations of sea level to 500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to small, flattened, round pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to several, distichous, imbricate, leafless and leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, obliquely bilobed apically, lanceolate, gradually conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a lateral, axillary, racemose, many flowered, arching to pendant, to 3.6" [9 cm] long inflroescence with resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Cryptarrhena acrensis Schltr.1914; Cryptarrhena ghillanyi Pabst 1975; Cryptarrhena quadricornu Kraenzl. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum tropicarum plate 030 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum tropicarum plate 644 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as C quadricornu drawing fide; Icones Planetarum tropicarum plate 425 Dodson 1989 as C acrensis drawing fide; Icones Planetarum tropicarum plate 211 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as C acrensis drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum tropicarum plate 023 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide

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