!Jacquiniella globosa (Jacq.) Schltr. 1920

Photo by Weyman Bussey

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Photo by Noble Bashor

Plant in situ Trinidad

Full shadeHotTo ColdWinterSpringSummerFall

Common Name The Spheroid Jacquiniella

Flower Size less than 1/8" [3mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil on Arbutus trees along dry stream bed on oak forested hillsides at 200 to 2400 meters in elevation as a miniature to small sized, hot to cold growing epiphyte that has terete, fractiflex stems carrying terete, conduplicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, sessile, successively one, to 2 flowered inflorescence with the flowers held at the apex of the stem.

Synonyms Cymbidium globosum Sw. 1799; Epidendrum geraldoi Porto & Brade 1935; *Epidendrum globosum Jacq. 1760; Epidendrum kuhlmannii Schltr. 1925; Epidendrum rudolfianum Hoehne 1951; Isochilus globosus (Jacq.) Lindl. 1831

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as Epidendrum globosum drawing fide; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum globosum; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum globosum; Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 drawing good; ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 drawing fide; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 791 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 photo fide; ; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo good; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawin/photo fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide

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