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Brachtia glumacea is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1850. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Brassia glumaceoides.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and northwestern Venezuela at elevations of 1900 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with ovoid, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped laterally by a few distichous, the inner ones leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, linear-oblong to linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, carinate dorsally, attenuate and conduplicate basally leaf that blooms on a racemose, axillary, erect to horizontal, 4 to 10.4 [10 to 26 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence enveloped by 2 to 3, well spaced, close fitting, acute bracts and has scarious, cucullate, acute, ovate to ovate-elliptic floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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