Macroclinium allenorum Dressler & Pupulin 1996 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by White Oak Orchids.

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Common Name or Meaning Allen's Macroclinium [American Orchidist in Central America 20th cen]

Flower Size

Found in the Pacific coast of Costa Rica at elevations of sealevel to 400 meters as a super-mini, hot growing epiphyte with inconspicuous, flattened, pseudobulbs enveloped completely by several, disitichous, imbricating leaf bearing sheaths carring a single apical, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute leaf that tapers below to a narrow base that blooms in the winter on an ocassionally branching, .6 to 4.3" [1.5 to 11cm] long, axillary, racemose, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence with the flowers mostlyu clustered towards the apex. .

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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