Photo by Patricia Harding Common Name Endres' Chondroscaphe [German Orchid Collector in Central America 1800's]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Costa Rica in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 950 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a loose fan of 3 to 7, oblanceolatre to narrowly oblanceolate-ligulate, acuminate, basally conduplicate leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, axillary, 4" [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
This species has mistakenly been determined to be C bicolor for many years but actually is Chondoscaphe endresii.
Patricia's photo shows the pollina in the triggered position waiting to be caught up by a flying bug.
Synonyms *Chondrorhyncha endresii Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 52. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Chondrorhyncha endresii; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #1 2009 as C endresii drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #1 2009 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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