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Orchid Species: Saundersia paniculata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Saundersia paniculata is an orchid species identified by Brade in 1941.
ORIGIN: Found in Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states of Brasil in wet cool montane forests.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a stem completely enveloped by tight, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, narrowly oval to lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed below into the conduplicate, elongate, petiole-like base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, pendant, 3 [7.5 cm] long, several flowered, slightly fractiflex inflorescence arising on a newly matured stem and holding the flowers in an apical cluster and each has a pilose ovary and sepals.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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