Warmingia zamorana Dodson 1989

Costa Rican Flower Photos by © Medina/Karremanns, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Ecuadorian Flower Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

EARLY

Common Name The Zamora Warmingia [A department of Ecuador]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador at elevations around 600 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with narrowly ovate, cylindrical pseduobulbs enveloped basally by no-leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing inot the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a basal, 2.8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms Warmingia margaritacea B. Johans.1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 599 Dodson 1989 drawing ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo as W margaritacea;

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