Leochilus puertoricensis M.W. Chase 1986 Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Common Name or Meaning The Puerto Rico Leochilus

Flower Size

Found in Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique and St Vincent as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, broadly ovoid, very compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 4 leaf-beaering sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, linear-oblong to oblong lanceolate, acute, dorsally carinate, bsaally conduplicate leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to more, axillary, 3.6" [9 cm] long, arching to pendant, several flowered, racemose to paniculate inflorescence with narrowly triangular, apiculate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo; The Orchids of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000

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