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Pogonia microstyloides is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1886. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Monophyllorchis microstyloides.
ORIGIN: Found from Costa Rica to Ecuador in extremely wet, montane cloud forests as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid at elevations of 400 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found from Costa Rica to Ecuador in extremely wet, montane cloud forests as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid at elevations of 400 to 1700 meters with a recumbent stem enveloped by a few, acunimate sheaths and carrying a single, cordate, heavily veined, apical leaf that is dark red beneath and linear, white spotted above that blooms in the fall on a terminal, brown, 4 [10 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with a few flowers opening over a period of time.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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