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Rudolfiella bicornaria, La Isla Escondida, Colombia A relatively large orchid found about 2m from the forest floor in La Isla Escondida, Colombia.<br />
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Rudolfiella bicornaria, La Isla Escondida, Colombia

A relatively large orchid found about 2m from the forest floor in La Isla Escondida, Colombia.

Rudolfiella bicornaria - flower closeup, La Isla Escondida, Colombia A relatively large orchid found about 2m from the forest floor in La Isla Escondida, Colombia.<br />
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Found in Colombia, Surinam and northern Brazil at elevations around 220 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid-tetragonus, rugose, sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped by sheaths that become fibrous with age carrying a single, apical, erect, oblanceoalte, acute to acuminate, many nerved, narrwoing below into an elongate, petiolate bawse leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, rachis 9.2 to 12" [18 to 30 cm] long, 18" [45 cm] long, overall, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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By Ferdy Christant

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Uploaded Dec 28, 2018. Captured Oct 20, 2018 08:34.
  • NIKON D850
  • f/13.0
  • 1/60s
  • ISO64
  • 105mm