Chondroscaphe yamilethae Pupulin 2005

Another Angle Photos by © Franco Pupulpin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name Yamileth's Chondroscaphe [Gonzalez-Garcia Costa Rican University president current]

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1200 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped completely by imbricate leafless becoming leaf bearing, strongly conduplicate leaf sheaths and carrying 5 to 7, narrowly obloanceolate, acuminate, becoming conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a 1.6" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Pupulpin 2005 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 4 2006 photo fide; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #1 Pupulin & Dressler 2009 drawing/photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 drawing fide;

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