Macroclinium manabinum (Dodson) Dodson 1984 Photos courtesy of Franz Panholzer ©

Common Name The Manabi Macroclinium [refers to the province in Ecuador where the orchid occurs]

Flower Size

Found in Western Ecuador near the coast in tropical dry forests at elevations around 300 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with equitant, distichous, red-green, 7 to 10, obliquely-elliptic, somewhat falcate-incurved, acute, very conduplicate into the leaf bearing sheaths and blooms in the winter and spring on a 3" [7.5 cm] long, 11 to 17 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Notylia manabina Dodson 1980

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 173 Dodson 1980 as Notylia manabina; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991;

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