Jacquiniella equitantifolia (Ames) Dressler 1966
Photos by Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by David Morris
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Common Name The Equitant Leafed Jacquiniella
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found from Belize south to Panama in wet montane forests as a medium sized, pendant, hot to cool growing epiphyte found at elevations of 60 to 1400 meters with compressed stems enveloped completely by scarious sheaths with the uppermost being leaf-bearing and carrying, sessile, equitant, imbricate, ensiform, acuminate, conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, hidden within the innermost leaf, short inflorescence and carrying 1 to 3 successively opening single, night fragrant flowers .
Synonyms Briegeria equitantifolia (Ames) Senghas 1980; Epidendrum equitans Lindl. 1838; *Epidendrum equitantifolium Ames 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum equitans; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 32. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Epidendrum equitans; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 151. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 296. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum equitans; The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum equitantifolium; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Epidendrum equantifolium; Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum equantifolium; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Dressleriella equntifolia; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing good; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 790 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 1 1999 photo; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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