Coccineorchis warszewicziana Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik 2004
TYPE Drawing By Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik and The Research Gate Website
Drawing By
EARLY 
Common Name Warszewicz's Coccineorchis [Polish Orchid Collector in Central and South America 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica and Panama within deep wet forest shade in lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 3000 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 6, basal, narrow, elliptic-ovate, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, more or less oblique, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through early spring on an erect to arcuate, terminal, rather stout, 11.2 to 18.8" [28 to 47 cm] long, densely glandular below peduncle, rachis 2 to 4.2" [5 to 10.5 cm] long, subsecund, subdensely 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, orange, dull orange, red to dull pale red floral bracts and carrying medium sized, conspicuous, yellow to yellow orange flowers.
"The lips of both C warszewicziana, C cristata and C sneidernii are ornamented with calli. C warszewicziana is strongly squeezed above the middle with large thick calli above the center, in C ristata it is not squeezed, rhomboid-ovate in outline with 3 to 5 cristae in the upper half and in C schneideri has only 1 and is additionally adorned with a pair of mamillate projections at the base." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Bot. Fenn. 41: 480 Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik 2004 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 190 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 191 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawings fide
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