Orchids in the park - SF - September 2010
Andy's orchids
Partial shade, intermediary to hot temperature, flower in fall
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontagne rainforests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters with 3.2" [8 cm ] between each, cylindric to slightly tapered pseudobulbs subtended by 1 to 2 foliate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous to fleshy, sessile, elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the fall in situ.
Partial shade, intermediary to hot temperature, flower in fall
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontagne rainforests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters with 3.2" [8 cm ] between each, cylindric to slightly tapered pseudobulbs subtended by 1 to 2 foliate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous to fleshy, sessile, elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the fall in situ.