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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis oncoglossa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis oncoglossa is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1996.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica in shady moist cloud forest at elevations of 1100 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another on the lower half and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, avate, acute, acuminate, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile of successive single flowered inflorescence arising through a narrow spathe and holding the flower against the leaf base.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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