Cryptocentrum flavum Schltr. 1913

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Yellow Cryptocentrum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 30 to 1600 meters as an erect to ascendent mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped basally by polystichous leaf bases and carrying straight to slightly recurved, usually sprinkled with dull red-marron, linear to linear-oblong, hemi-cylindric to subtriquetroius in cross-section, obscurly keeled underneath leaves that blooms at most any time of the year, on 1 to 4, arising from the base of the stem, simultaneous, erect, spreading to descending, .6 to 2.8" [1.5 to 7 cm] long, shorter to just slightly longer than the leaves, successively single flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Botany Flora Costaricensis Family #39 Atwood and Mora 1999; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Cryptocentrum sp. #135 drawing/photo seems to be

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