Palmorchis powellii (Ames) C.Schweinf. & Correll 1940

Plant in situ Costa Rica Photos by © Herbario De Golfito and the Herbario de Golfito Website

Full shadeHot

Common Name Powell's Palmorchis [American Botanist in Panama 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in primary forests at elevations around 100 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, elongate stem carrying several deciduous, plicate, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms after leaf fall on an axillary, successively single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Rolfea powellii Ames 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1376 Atwood 1989 drawing ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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