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Humboltia mandonii is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis mandonii.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations around 3000 to 3300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing terrestrial with ascending to erectseparate, not fasciculate, slender ramicauls enveloped with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute, acuminate, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and again in the early summer on a sublax, distichous to secund, 2 to 3.2 [5 to 8 cm] long including the .8 [2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe from an annulus below the abscission layer and has an infundibular floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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