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Orchid Species: Ionopsis minutiflora
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Ionopsis minutiflora is an orchid species identified by (Dodson & N.H.Williams) Pupulin in 1998.
ORIGIN: Found in western Ecuador dry and wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 800 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with small round pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3 well developed, thick and fleshy, conduplicate leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 1 or 2 apical, dwarfed, much shorter than the leaf-bearing sheaths, thick and hard, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms on an axillary, erect, branching, 16 [40 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence occurring in the late spring and early fall with many tiny flowers. Only this genus and the unrelated genus of Erycina have the very well developed, lateral, leaf bearing sheaths and very small, reduced apical leaves arising from the apex of the pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/10 inch [2 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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