Warrea costaricensis Schltr.1920 Photo by © the Costa Rica Linda Orchid Page

Common Name The Costa Rican Warrea

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama in shady, humid lowland forests at elevations of 50 to 850 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing terrestrial with elongate, inconspicuous, longitudinally rugose pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, plicate, acute, gradually narrowing into the conduplicate, elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through winter on an, arising through the sheathing base of the leafy petiole, erect, to 24" [to 60 cm] long, as long as the leaf, racemose, 4 to 6 flowered inflroescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1300 Hamer 1985 drawing 1980 Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo hmm

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