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Brenesia costaricensis is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1923. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Acianthera costaricensis.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama in primary and secondary pine/oak forests at elevations of 1000 to 2450 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm growing litho-terrestrial on road cuts and cliffs with terete, 3 to 4 noded ramicauls enveloped completely by imbricating, laterally compressed sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate base leaf that flowers in the summer and fall on a basal, creeeping, racemose, 2 [5 cm] long, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence carrying foul smelling flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 wide inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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