Orchids in the park - SF - September 2010
Rempotage 08/2010
Full shade, cold to cool temperature, flower in spring
A small sized, cool to cold growing, epiphytic herb without pseudobulbs that is found at 2000 to 3100 meters in elevation in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in the lower cloud forests with a pronounced dry season in the summer and fall and has terete ramicauls enveloped by close, tubular, scarious sheaths that are soon evanescent carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear lanceolate, obtuse, minutely tridentate, gradually tapering to the conduplicate, channeled base leaf with an abscission layer and an annulus from which arises a short to 2 cm, few [3 to 4] flowered inflorescence that carries a single successively opening flower at a time held at mid-leaf height all occuring in the spring.
Full shade, cold to cool temperature, flower in spring
A small sized, cool to cold growing, epiphytic herb without pseudobulbs that is found at 2000 to 3100 meters in elevation in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in the lower cloud forests with a pronounced dry season in the summer and fall and has terete ramicauls enveloped by close, tubular, scarious sheaths that are soon evanescent carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear lanceolate, obtuse, minutely tridentate, gradually tapering to the conduplicate, channeled base leaf with an abscission layer and an annulus from which arises a short to 2 cm, few [3 to 4] flowered inflorescence that carries a single successively opening flower at a time held at mid-leaf height all occuring in the spring.
