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Acronia rhodoglossa is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Luer in 2005. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis rhodoglossa.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, broadly ovate, subacute to obtuse, acuminate, long-mucronate, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on an suberect,.04 to.08 [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising and enveloped by a spathe at the base of the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.12 inches [3 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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