Zootrophion vulturiceps (Luer) Luer 1982 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name The Vulture Headed Zootrophion

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 1400 to 1700 meters in wet cloud forests as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with close set ramicauls enveloped basally by 3 to 4 brown, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, rigid, flat, deep green, prominentmidvein, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf and blooms in the fall on a short, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus from near the apex of the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract.

Synonyms *Cryptophoranthus vulturiceps Luer 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 4 1998 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 1 2004 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide

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