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Pleurothallis cedralensis is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1923. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trichosalpinx cedralensis.
ORIGIN: Found in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ascending, slender ramicauls that produce another ramicaul from the apex and enveloped basally by 2 to 6, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, contracted below into a petiolte base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a loose, .8 to 1.2 [2 to 3 cm] long, flexuous, subsecund, simultaneously several flowering inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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