Eurystyles cotyledon Wawra 1863 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto
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Common Name or Meaning The Cotyledon-Like Eurystyles
Flower Size [1 mm]
Found in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo State Brazil as well as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 3150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold to warm growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of elliptic, acute leaves that are conduplicate below into a distinct petiole that blooms in the summer on a short to 1" [2.5 cm], pendant inflorescence with a head-like cluster of several [6 to 8] flowers with inflated, pilose floral bracts
Synonyms Eurystyles auriculata Schltr. 1923; Eurystyles colombiana (Schltr.) Schltr. 1925; Eurystyles paranaensis (Schltr.) Schltr. 1926; Stenoptera roehlii Schnee 1946; Trachelosiphon colombianum Schltr. 1920; Trachelosiphon paranaense Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 106 Dodson 1980; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1983; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 27 Hagsater and Salazar 1990; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1992 as E cotiledon; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Eurystyles auriculata
