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Cryptocentrum hirtzii is an orchid species identified by Dodson in 1993. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria mystkowskana.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador at elevations of 700 to 1250 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a monopodial, occasionally branched from the base stem enveloped by numerous, districhous, imbricating leaf sheaths and carrying subfiliform, narrowly linear, abruptly obtuse leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on lateral, peduncle to .4 [1 cm] long, filiform, with 1 to 2 filiform, tubular bracts, from the axils of the upper leaf sheaths, spreading, single flowered inflorescence with a large inflated floral bract and carrying a yellow green flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.5 inches [1.2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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