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Diadenium ecuadorense is an orchid species identified by Garay in 1954. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Systeloglossum ecuadorense.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador in lowland tropical and premontane rainforests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with oblong to ovate pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong, acute to obtuse, tapering gradually below into a slender base that blooms in the late winter, on an erect, triangular, paniculate, several flowered inflorescence with a few loosely branched, each branch carrying to 4 closely spaced, successively opening flowers with only 1 or 2 open at a time.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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