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Cryptophoranthus endresianus is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1921. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Zootrophion endresianum.
ORIGIN: Found from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador in very wet, premontane rainforests at 700 to 1500 meters in elevation.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing, occasional terrestrial and epiphyte with .8 to 2.4 [2 to 6 cm] long stems enveloped by imbricate, tubular bracts that become papery with time and holding a single, subcoriaceous, elliptic-suborbicular leaf with a conduplicate petiole at the base from which a short, single to three flowered, racemose inflorescence arises from the tubular sheaths at the base of a newly matured leaf stem all occurring in the summer in the northern hemisphere.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 to 3/4 inch [1.8 to 2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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