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Orchid Species: Domingoa haematochila
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Domingoa haematochila is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Carabia in 1943.
ORIGIN: Found in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico at altitudes of 100 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, epiphytic, hot to warm growing, twig orchid needing moderate shade, high humidity and even year round conditions with clustered, cylindrical, angulate, pseudobulbs enveloped by papery sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect or suberect, linear-ligulate, acute leaf that blooms mostly in the winter and spring with 1 to 5, fragrant, sequential opening, flowers on an erect, short to 8 [20 cm] long, terminal, slender inflorescence enveloped by papery, acute sheaths and ovate, acuminate or acute bracts, that is longer than the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: To about 1 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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