Echinosepala stonei (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2002 Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name Stone's Echinosepala [American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout ascending ramicauls enveloped basally by 3 to 4 loose, imbricating tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute leaf that is cuneate below into the conduplicate, sessile base and blooms in the spring and fall on a single flowered, short inflorescence that arises from any of the lower nodes on the ramicaul or rhizome and carrys a non-resupinate flower..

Synonyms Brenesia stonei (Luer) Luer 2004; Echinella stonei (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Myoxanthus stonei (Luer) Luer 1986; *Pleurothallis stonei Luer 1979