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Orchid Species: Cyrtochilum fredericae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cyrtochilum fredericae is an orchid species identified by Dalström in 2010.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Ecuador in shrubby montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a creeping, branching rhizome giving rise to slightly distant, elongate ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped by 5 to 7 distichous, uppermost foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, conduplicate, narrowly elliptic, acute, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an axillary, from the uppermost sheaths, weakly fractiflex racemes or few branched, panicles 4 to 4.8 [10 to 12 cm] long, few flowered each, several flowered inflorescence with small, adpressed, scale like floral bracts and carrying slightly campanulate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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