Isochilus amparoanus Schltr. 1923 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name or Meaning Amparo de Celedon's Isochilus [Costa Rican Orchid Enthusiast early 1900's]

Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]

Found from southeastern Mexico to Panama in coffee plantations to closed forests to wet montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte on rocks with arching to pendant, slender stems enveloped basally by several tubular sheaths and carrying in the upper half, erect-patent, sessile, narrowly linear, obtuse, basally clasping leaves with smooth leaf sheaths and blooms in the fall on a terminal, sessile, secund, densely several to many flowered [10 to 20] inflorescence with foliaceous floral bracts.

Synonyms Isochilus chiriquensis Schlechter 1922 ; Isochilus major var amparoanus [Schlechter] Correll 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 25. Panama Schlechter 1922 as I chiriquensis; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 27. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 783 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Isochilus chiriquensis; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo

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