Jacquiniella globosa (Jacq.) Schltr. 1920 Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor
Common Name The Spheroid Jacquiniella
Flower Size less than 1/8" [3mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil at 200 to 2400 meters in elevation as an epiphyte on Arbutus trees along dry stream bed, oak forested hillside. A miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that has terete, fractiflex stems and terete, conduplicate basally clasping leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, sessile, one to 2 flowered inflorescence with the flowers held at the apex of the stem and opening successively.
Synonyms Cymbidium globosum Sw. 1799; Epidendrum geraldoi Porto & Brade 1935; *Epidendrum globosum Jacq. 1760; Epidendrum kuhlmannii Schltr. 1925; Epidendrum rudolfianum Hoehne 1951; Isochilus globosus (Jacq.) Lindl. 1831
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 791 Dodson 1982; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 2002; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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