Macroclinium robustum Pupulin & Mora-Ret. 1997

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name The Robust Macroclinium

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1300 to 1850 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to ovate psuedobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 5, leaf-bearing sheaths with hyaline, scarious margins and carrying, rugose, compressed, acute leaves, the basal ones articulate to the sheaths that blooms in the summer on a lax, 3.45" [8.6 cm] long, 11 to 17 flowered inflorescence with 2 triangular, acute bracts and a single, triangular, acuminate floral bract. Distinguished from others by the longer inflorescence and the papillose-hirsute calli and from M ramonense by the long and stout claw of the lip..

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997;

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