Jacquiniella equitantifolia (Ames) Dressler 1966 Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Another Flower Photo courtesy of David Morris

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Common Name The Riding Leaf Jacquiniella

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found from Belize south to Panama in wet montane forests as a medium sized, pendant, hot to warm growing epiphyte found at elevations of 60 to 1400 meters with compressed stems enveloped completely by scarious sheaths with the uppermost being leaf-bearing and carrying, sessile, equitant, imbricate, ensiform, acuminate, conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, hidden within the innermost leaf, short inflorescence and carrying 1 to 3 successively opening single flowers .

Synonyms Briegeria equitantifolia (Ames) Senghas 1980; Epidendrum equitans Lindl. 1838; *Epidendrum equitantifolium Ames 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 790 Dodson 1982; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005