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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis palliolata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis palliolata is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1922.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica and Panama as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1200 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Costa Rica and Panama as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1200 to 2100 meters with slender, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another on the lower half and carrying a single, apical suberect to horizontal, coriaceous, avate, acute, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf that can bloom at any time of the year on a fascile of successive single [sometimes two] flowered inflorescence arising through a narrow spathe.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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