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Adamanthus costaricensis is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko in 2012. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria falcata.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica and Panama on steep embankments in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with an erect to decumbent, branching stem without pseudobulbs carrying usually deciduous along the lower cane, thin, conduplicate, oblong-lanceolate, abaxially keeled, unequally bilobed apicallly leaves that blooms in the winter on many overall, 2 or more per leaf axil, shorter than the leaves, to 1.2 [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence subtended by a somehat cucullate, hyaline margined floral bracts. The flowers can be pinkish to white and are found all along the stem in profusion.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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