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Orchid Species: Acineta densa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Acineta densa is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1851.
ORIGIN: Found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia at elevations around 1300 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, ovoid to cylindrical, glossy olive green, laterally compressed, finely sulcate pseudobulbs with a basal sheath and carrying 2 to 4, terminal, thick, glabrous, plicate, oblanceolate, acute, stalked leaves that blooms on pendant, racemose, [70 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with papery bracts and very fleshy, cup-like, vanilla scented, long-lived flowers occurring in the spring and early summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 2/5 inches [6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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