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Lophiarella splendida is an orchid species identified by (A.Rich. ex Duch.) Carnevali & Cetzal in 2013. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trichocentrum splendidum.
ORIGIN: Found in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua at elevations around 825 to 850 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, mule eared with obvious pseudobulbs, warm to hot growing lithophyte on rocky hillsides with clustered, suborbicular, compressed, dull brown-green to purple green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by fibrous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, obtuse leaf that is V shaped in cross-section and blooms in the early spring through early summer with an erect, 4' [120 cm] long, many flowered panicle with large, longlasting flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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