Rodriguezia compacta Schltr. 1923 Photo by the Costa Rica Linda Website

Yellow Flower Variety Photo by Gaspar Silvera and his Orquideas Tropicales Orchid Website

LATE THROUGH

Common Name The Compact Rodriguezia

Flower Size 1" [.5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 15 to 200 meters as a miniature to just small sized, hot growing epiphyte with compressed, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by 3 t o6 leaf bearing sheaths and carrying coriaceous, articulate, oblong to elliptic, broadly rounded to obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a lateral, 1 to several at a time, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long, 1 to 5 flowered, racemose inflorescence that is much shorter than the leaves and carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 144. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1148 Hamer 1984 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1578 Mora & Atwood 1993 drawing ok; Fieldiana, Flora Costa Ricensis Family #39 Orchidaceae Atwood & Retana 1999;

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