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Orchid Species: Coccineorchis standleyi
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Coccineorchis standleyi is an orchid species identified by (Ames) Garay in 1982.
ORIGIN: Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in dense, wet, montane primary forests in tall trees at elevations of 400 to 2750 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with fleshy and somewhat pilose roots carrying elliptic leaves that have elongate basally clasping petioles that blooms in the spring through fall on a terminal, 6 [15 cm] long, racemose, apically densely compact, many flowered inflorescence arising from a spathe and having 3 to 4 inflated, loose, tubular, acuminate bracts as well as floral bracts that surround the apical ball of variable colored flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2/5 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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