Eurystyles alticola Dod 1978 Photo courtesy of © Linda & Mikael Karlbom

Common Name The High Elevation Eurystyles

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in The Dominican Republic & Haiti in seasonally wet broadleaf forests on branches at elevations of 1700 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, humus loving epiphyte with several, basal rosulate, obovate to elliptic, fleshy, translucent gray-green, waxy, acute, denticulate leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect to nutant, densely puberulent, to 1.6" [to 4 cm] long, capitate, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate flortal bracts that are externally ciliate and with cilate margins all carrying fleshy small flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000

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