Rhynchostele cordata

Rhychostele cordata is named for its beautiful heart shaped lip, a really charismatic feature of this lovely species. The flowers have heavy spotting on the lateral sepals contrasting with the mostly pure coloured sepals (apart from the striping at their base). Plants are compact and produce flower spikes around 60cm long with 10 to 12 long lasting flowers.

Rhychostele cordata is found from Mexico through Central America to Venezuela in cloud forests from 1900 to 3000m and so is happy grown really cool in our Himalayas greenhouse (min 7C) wet in the summer and much dryer in the winter.