Echinosepala uncinata ( Fawc. ) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002

Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenford

Common Name The Hook Shaped Echinosepala [refers to the lateral lobes of the lip]

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Jamaica in cloud forests as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 8, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical to narrowly ovate, acute leaf that is cuneate below into the conduplicate, sessile base and blooms in the summer and fall on a fascile of single, successive flowers arising from the apex of the ramicaul and having pubescent floral bracts.

Synonyms Brenesia uncinata ( Fawc. ) Luer 2004; Myoxanthus uncinatus ( Fawc. ) Luer 1986; *Pleurothallis uncicnatus Fawc. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Pleurothallis uncinata; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1969 as Pleurothallis uncinatus; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1130 Dodson 1984 as Pleurothallis uncinata; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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