Sievekingia fimbriata Rchb. f. 1886 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.
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Common Name The Fringed Sievekingia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with pyriform, sulcate, pseudobulbs subtended by basal bracts with a single, apical, coriaceous, plicate, petiolate, elliptic-lanceolate, prominently ribbed leaf that blooms as the plant produces an incredible number of basal spikes, arising on mature pseudobulbs over several months, the pendant, racemose, 2 2/5" to 3 1/4" [6 to 8 cm] long, inflorescence emerge through the sides and bottom of their teakwood baskets each carrying a cluster of up to 15 gorgeous, short-lived (5 day), fragrant flowers occuring in the spring and summer.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1586 Atwood 1993
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