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Orchid Species: Acianthera decipiens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Acianthera decipiens is an orchid species identified by (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela as a miniature to small sized, hot, pendulous growing epiphyte that occurs at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela as a miniature to small sized, hot, pendulous growing epiphyte that occurs at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters with an erect, ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly lanceolate leaf that blooms on a short, apical, few flowered, fasciculate inflorescence that has the flowers held close to the base of the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/5 inch [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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