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Orchid Species: Otoglossum palaciosii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Otoglossum palaciosii is an orchid species identified by (Dodson) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Napo and Pastaza provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1650 meters.
DESCRIPTION: As small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a long, creeping, twining, occasionally branching stem giving rise to a green, almost circular, strongly laterally flattened, ancipitous pseudobulb enveloped basally by 2 to 5, distichous, imbricate, longitudinally folded, close fitting, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, narrowly ovate, acute, abruptly rounded below into the short, narrow base leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a basal, through an axil of a basal sheath, to.8 [2 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
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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