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Orchid Species: Anathallis dalessandroi
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Anathallis dalessandroi is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 3, loose, imbricating, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and again in early summer on a subcongested, suberect, to .4 [1 cm] long including the .12 [3 mm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from a node at the apex of the ramicaul.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.32 inches [3 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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