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Rhynchopera fastidiosa is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. in 2001. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis fastidiosa.
ORIGIN: Found as a small sized, caespitose epiphyte and sometime terrestrial on felled trees in wet montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes at altitudes of 500-1700 meters in Ecuador and Peru.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a small sized, caespitose epiphyte and sometime terrestrial on felled trees in wet montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes at altitudes of 500-1700 meters in Ecuador and Peru with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, apical, elliptical, acute, petiolate leaf which blooms on a long, apical, arching, several flowered, simultaneously opening inflorescence arising from a long spathe with an annulus that holds the flowers longer than the leaves and occurs in June.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/5 inch [1.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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