Cischweinfia rostrata Dressler & N.H. Williams 1970 Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by © David Jubineau Copyright ©
Common Name The Beaked Cischweinfia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 250 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte on mossy trees in wet montane forests with small psuedobulbs subtended by clasping leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, strap-shaped leaf that blooms in the spring on a short to 3/4” [2 cm], few to several [4 to 7] flowered, axillary, racemose inflorescence.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 11 1970 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 024 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 2 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador # 76 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2009 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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