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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis ortegae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis ortegae is an orchid species identified by Luer & Hirtz in 1996.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another on the lower third and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, acutely deflexed, cordate-ovate, acute, basally sessile, more or less concave and deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the winter, late summer and early fall on a fascile of successive single flowered inflorescence arising through an erect to suberect, conduplicate spathe and holding the flower close against the leaf base.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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