Govenia ciliilabia Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Hairy Lipped Govenia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica on forested slopes at elevations of 1500 to 2100 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2, subopposite, erect-spreading, ellipitc, shortly acuminate, thinly membranaceous, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring on a slender, glabous, loose below congested above, racemose inflorescence..

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Sched. Orch. 10: 80. 1930; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2006 photo

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