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Werauhia nutans (L.B.Sm.) J.R.Grant

(section Werauhia)

Publ: Phytologia 79: 254-6. (1995) (1996)

Type: Foster 2717 (holotype US), on tree, road from Turrialba to Moravia, 900 m alt, San Jose, Costa Rica, 20 Dec 1948.

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Distribution: COSTA RICA; San Jose, MEXICO; Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz,

Habitat: A rare, but locally abundant epiphyte in tropical rain -forest and cloud forest, 650-1400 m. Elev.

Phenology: Flowering December to February. Cultivated flowering plants in the live collection of the "Los Tuxtlas" Biological Research Station (EBT) in April-May.

Werauhia nutans