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(Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
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Species
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CHONDRORHYNCHA discolor (Lindl.) P. H. Allen
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Synonym
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Warrea discolor Lindl. in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. 4:265. 1849. Warscewiczella discolor (Lindl.) Rchb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 10:636. 1852. Zygopetalum discolor (Lindl.) Rchb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6:655. 1861.
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Description
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Erect, tufted, epiphytic or pseudo-terrestrial herbs without pseudobulbs, 20-35 cm. tall, the plants typical of the genus. Inflorescences of slender, erect or arching, 1-flowered scapes 7-15 cm. long, produced from the axils of the lower non-foliaceous bracts. Flowers relatively large and conspicuous, sometimes nodding. Sepals membranaceous, subequal, free, spreading, white, often with yellowish apices, dorsal sepal erect, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, the apex recurved, 2.8-3 cm. long and 1.0-1.5 cm. wide, laterals deflexed, concave, lanceolate, acute, 3-3.2 cm. long and .8-1.0 cm. wide. Petals spreading, elliptic, obtuse to subacute, white, often suffused with purple toward the apex, 2.5-3 cm. long and 1.2-1.5 cm. wide. Lip cucullate, obscurely to conspicuously 3-lobed when spread out, 2.5-3.2 cm. long and 2.2-3 cm. wide, deep violet-purple, sometimes with narrow whitish margins, lateral lobes or margins erect and incurving over the column, the apex suborbicular and slightly retuse; disk with a radiate, digitate, plurisulcate callus, the free projecting apex with elongate teeth of unequal length. Column short, semiterete, narrowly clavate, 10-12 mm. long, white, sometimes blotched with purple. Anther and pollinia typical of the genus.
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Distribution
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Cuba, Costa Rica, and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: without definite locality, 4500-5 500 ft., Powell 155; upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, vic. Monte Lirio, G. White 42; lianos and slopes of Chiriqui Volcano and along the Rio Chiriqui Viejo, 1200 m., Allen 914.
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Note
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A very frequent species of the Chiriqui highlands, where the plants are often found in association with those of Odontoglossum Schlieperianum, as epiphytes on low trees or sometimes as pseudo-terrestrials on boulders and steep mossy banks.
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