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Cryptocentrum flavum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1913. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria cryptocentroides.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 30 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: An erect to ascendent mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped basally by polystichous leaf bases and carrying straight to slightly recurved, usually sprinkled with dull red-maroon, linear to linear-oblong, hemi-cylindric to subtriquetrous in cross-section, obscurly keeled underneath leaves that blooms at most any time of the year, on 1 to 4, arising from the base of the stem, simultaneous, erect, spreading to descending,.6 to 2.8 [1.5 to 7 cm] long, shorter to just slightly longer than the leaves, successively single flowered inflorescence.
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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