Macroclinium ramonense (Schltr.) Dodson 1984 Photos courtesy of Lois Cinert

Common Name or Meaning The Santiago de San Ramone Macroclinium [A town in Costa Rica]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in moist evergreen forests at elevations around 950 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with obovate-ellipsoid, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 5, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apaicl, erect, rugulose, conduplicate, laterally flattened, ligulate-lanceolate, subfalcate, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on a pendant, racemose, to 5.2" [13 cm] long, many [to 30] flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute bracts and a lanceolate, acuminate, spreading floral bract..

Synonyms Notylia ramonensis Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 939 Dodson 1984; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997;