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Gorgoglossum reichenbachianum is an orchid species identified by (Rolfe) F.Lehm. ex Schltr. in 1914. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Sievekingia reichenbachiana.
ORIGIN: Found as a hot to warm growing, miniature to small sized epiphyte or lithophyte on steep embankments in Ecuador and Colombia occurring in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a hot to warm growing, miniature to small sized epiphyte or lithophyte on steep embankments in Ecuador and Colombia occurring in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1400 meters with ovoid, rugose pseudobulbs subtended by distichous, scarious, lanceolate, finely spotted sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, plicate, oblanceolate, gradually narrows below into the long petiolate base leaf that blooms on a sharply pendant, 4 10 cm] long, few [5] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and has elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate bracts occurring in the summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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