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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis ekmanii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis ekmanii is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in I.Urban in 1923.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Cuba on banks of rivulets or foggy mountain crests, in charrascales or gallery forests from 600 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped completely by 2 scarious, infundibuliform, conduplite, acute sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate to spathulate to broadly elliptic, flat to folded, grey green to green above, green beneath, obtuse to acute to subacuminate, tridentate, narrow to shortly attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a pendent to erect, 1.2 to 2.8 [3 to 7 cm] long, 2 to few flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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