Stanhopea costaricensis (Yellow Form)

Stanhopea costaricensis is found in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in shady, tropical, evergreen cloud forests low on tree trunks and lower branches at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pyriform to ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by fibrous bracts with a single, coriaceous, plicate, gradually narrows below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base, elliptic-ovate leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a lateral, pendant, 20 to 25 cm long inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb, subtended by inflated imbricate bracts and has 3 to 7, fragrant clove, baby powder to spicy scented flowers.