Orchids in the park - SF - September 2010
Andy's orchids
Partial shade, hot temperature, flower in spring
Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte high in the canopy of wet tropical and montane forests at elevations of 130 to 850 meters with a minute ramicaul obscured by several tubular, gray green bracts with an apical, oblanceolate, minutely bilobed leaf that blooms on an erect, 3" [7cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul that is held just above the leaves and occurs in the spring. Distinguished by the long tube, formed by the connate, triangular sepals and the obscurely 3-lobed, papilllose labellum.
Partial shade, hot temperature, flower in spring
Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte high in the canopy of wet tropical and montane forests at elevations of 130 to 850 meters with a minute ramicaul obscured by several tubular, gray green bracts with an apical, oblanceolate, minutely bilobed leaf that blooms on an erect, 3" [7cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul that is held just above the leaves and occurs in the spring. Distinguished by the long tube, formed by the connate, triangular sepals and the obscurely 3-lobed, papilllose labellum.
