Werauhia viridis (Mez & Wercklé) J.R.Grant

The New York Botanical Garden
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FLORA OF COSTA RICA
Province of:	Heredia
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About 2 to 3 km southeast of the junction of C.R.
Highways #120 and #9 on Highway #9.
Epiphyte; leaves green with darker green wavy cross-
bands, these weakly suffused with maroon near the
margins of leaf at base? scape erect, bracts folia-
ceous, the middle and upper with maroon wavy cross-
bands and the upper with red-maroon sheaths which
become yellowish near junction with blade; inflores-
cence erect, primary bracts colored like upper scape
bracts, flowers slightly pedicellate, spreading
to very slightly decurved; primary bracts spreading
usually recurved at junction of blade and sheath,
floral bracts green frequently suffused with red
maroon, sepals green to yellow-green suffused with
maroon especially at margins, flowers greenish-
white at anthesis, corolla "tube" strongly
genicualte.
John and Kathy Utley #4390
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Altitude 2000 to 2100 M. 27 March	6
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