Monophyllorchis maculata Garay 1978 Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

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Common Name The Spotted Monophyllorchis

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found from Costa Rica to Ecuador in extremely wet, montane cloud forests as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid at elevations of 400 to 1700 meters with a recumbent stem enveloped by a few, acunimate sheaths and carrying a single, cordate, heavily veined, apical leaf that is dark red beneath and linear, white spotted above that blooms on a terminal, brown, 4" [10 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with a few flowers opening over a period of time.

Synonyms Monophyllorchis colombiana Schltr. 1920; Monophyllorchis microstyloides (Rchb.f.) Garay 1962

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 168 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 875 Dodson 1983 as Monophyllorchis microstyloides; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as M microstylioides; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Monophyllorchis microstyloides;

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