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Crocodeilanthe popayanensis is an orchid species identified by (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Luer in 2004. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis globosa.
ORIGIN: Found in Cauca Colombia at elevations around 2500 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, fasciculate, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 imbricating sheaths about the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, pale purple beneath, elliptical-oblong, subacute, cuneate below into the conduplicate, sessile base leaf that blooms on 1 to 2, erect, slender, congested, more or less distichous, 2 to 3.2 [15 to 21 cm] long including the 1.6 [4 cm] long peduncle, simultaenously many flowered inflorescence arising through a broad spathe from the apex of the ramicaul with infundibular floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.12 inches [3 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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