Cischweinfia dasyandra

Description

Cischweinfia dasyandra is a species of orchid with epiphytic habits, native to South America. It is a small-sized orchid with epiphytic habits and elongated pseudobulbs, laterally compressed and partially enveloped by several distichous, imbricate, conduplicate sheaths that carry a single apical lanceolate, linear leaf that is conduplicate at the base. It flowers in summer on a short, basic, somewhat pendulous inflorescence 4-7 cm long, with 1-4 flower clusters generated on a newly matured pseudobulb outgrowth. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador in premontane forests at elevations of 300 to 1,600 meters. Cischweinfia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It was named after Harvard orchidologist Charles Schweinfurth. It has eleven currently recognized species, all native to Central America and northwestern South America.