Isochilus carnosiflorus Lindl. 1844

Inflorescence

Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage

full shadeHot CoolFallWinter

Common Name The Fleshy Flowered Isochilus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of sealevel to 1900 meters as a minaiture to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with thin stems completely enveloped by leaf bearing tubular acuminate sheaths and carrying linear-lanceolate, obliquely retuse apically, gradually narrows below into the clasping base and blooms on a terminal, few flowered inflorescence occuring in the fall and winter.

Synonyms Isochilus crassiflorus A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Isochilus linearis var. carnosiflorus (Lindl.) Correll 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 785 Hamer 1982 drawing ok;

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