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Orchid Species: Trichocentrum luridum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Trichocentrum luridum is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru at elevations of sea level to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru at elevations of sea level to 1400 meters with very small pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricating, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-ellptic to elliptic-lanceolate, rigid, coriaceous, acute to obtuse leaf where it blooms in the spring through fall on a panicle with short branches and scarious sheaths that can attain 8 feet [240 cm] and is a large sized, cool to hot growing, mule eared epiphyte.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 to 1 inch [2 to 2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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