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Orchid Species: Hapalorchis cheirostyloides
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Hapalorchis cheirostyloides is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1919.
ORIGIN: Found in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Fr. Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations around 1200 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized warm to cold growing terrestrial with a short stem carrying several, basal, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves and blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, terminal, glabrous below and pilose above, 4 [10 cm] long, laxly several to many flowered inflorescence with the fragrant flowers held in a spiral and having, inflated, acuminate floral bracts that cover the ovary of each flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/5 inch [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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