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Lophiarella flavovirens is an orchid species identified by (L.O.Williams) Carnevali & Balam in 2013. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trichocentrum flavovirens.
ORIGIN: Found as a mule-eared epiphyte or lithophyte in the humid, tropical, deciduous forests of western coastal Mexico in Jalisco and Coloima states at elevations of 900 to 1250 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a mule-eared epiphyte or lithophyte in the humid, tropical, deciduous forests of western coastal Mexico in Jalisco and Coloima states at elevations of 900 to 1250 meters with small, strongly compressed pseudobulbs subtended by several basal sheaths with the uppermost being leaf bearing, and a single, apical, elliptic, acute, fleshy coriaceous leaf that blooms on a basal, paniculate, 16 to 30 [40 to 75 cm] long, erect-arcuate, to 50 flowered inflorescence with triangular, papery bracts arising on a newly emerging pseudobulb that has several showy flowers with triangular, papery floral bracts that appear in the late summer and winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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