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Orchid Species: Scaphyglottis fasciculata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Scaphyglottis fasciculata is an orchid species identified by Hook. in 1841.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in wet montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1250 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with spreading, fasciculate branched orchid with somewhat thickened, vernicose stems enveloped basally by a few dry sheaths carrying 2, apical, obliquely patent, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal or at the nodes on stem, short inflorescence with a single flower arising on a mature stem.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/6 inches [0.4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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