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Ornithidium wercklei is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1923. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria wercklei.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in premontane forests at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1.6 [4 cm] between each cylindric to tapered pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by 1 to 2, foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous to fleshy, sessile, elliptic, unequally bilobed apically leaf that blooms in the fall through winter and summer on a .4 [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a newly forming growth and subtended by a floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/16 inch [7 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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