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Chondrorhyncha viridisepala is an orchid species identified by Senghas in 1989. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Ixyophora viridisepala.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Caespitose, fanshaped epiphyte with no pseudobulbs, oblanceolate, tapered to the conduplicate petiolate base, acute, graduating in size from the bottom to the top that blooms on a laxly arching, 2 1/4 [6 cm]long, single flowered scape with the flowers held below the leaves occurring at various times as the new growths mature but in nature in the spring. The fan-shape plant in this species is less distinct than in other Chondrorhyncha.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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