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Orchid Species: Cischweinfia pusilla
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cischweinfia pusilla is an orchid species identified by (C.Schweinf.) Dressler & N.H.Williams in 1970.
ORIGIN: Found in Panama and Costa Rica in wet montane forests as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte that is found at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small sized, warm growing epiphyte that is found at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters with linear or ellipsoid, strongly laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several disitichous, imbricating, conduplicate, lower leafless and upper leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear to strap-shaped, slightly coriaceous, oblique, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, short to 2 [5 cm], several [3 to 5] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb through the axils of the basal sheath.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 to 1 1/2 inches [2 to 3.75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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