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Macradenia modesta is an orchid species identified by (Rolfe) Rolfe in 1896. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Macradenia brassavolae.
ORIGIN: A miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found on trees in low wet forests at or near sea level to 300 meters from Chiapas and southern Quintana Roo statesd of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
DESCRIPTION: A miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found on trees in low wet forests at or near sea level to 300 meters from Chiapas and southern Quintana Roo statesd of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela with clustered, pyriform-cylindric, slightly compressed, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, subacute, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the spring with a pendant, to 12 [30 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence arising from a mature pseudobulb with sweetly fragrant flowers. This species needs to be mounted on treefern or cork and kept moderately shaded with high humidity with more water while in growth and a little less as the pseudobulb matures.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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