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Pleurothallis wyvern is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1981. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Acianthera wyvern.
ORIGIN: Found in southwestern Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2200 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with terete at the base and gradually becoming sharply winged towards the apex, erect ramicauls enveloped evanescent basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the decurrent base leaf that blooms in the late summer through earlier winter on a crowded, 1 to 1.8 [2.5 to 4.5 cm] long peduncles, successivesly single flowered inflorescence arising through a usually deciduous spathe at the apex of the secondary stem imbedded well abovethe base of the leaf and has an infundibular floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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