Warczewiczella timbiensis P.Ortiz 2005
Another Flower angle Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Common Name The Timbio Warscewiczella [A town in Cauca State of Colombia]
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
Found in Colombia in wet, cool to warm forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with oblong-obovate, acute, becoming conduplicate basally leaves that are held in a loose fan that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 5 infundibuliform bracts. A very rare and newly discovered orchid that was never written as Cochleanthes timbiensis.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia XXIV {1} pg 7-8 and 14 2005; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008
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