Isochilus alatus Schltr.1912Photo by Eduardo A. Pérez García Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Microplanta web Page

Common Name The Winged Isochilus

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Guatemala and El Salvador at elevations around 2100 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with distichous, oblong, obtuse, emarginate, slightly coriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, short, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Isochilus major var. alatus (Schltr.) Correll 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol II Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1030 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide;

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