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Acianthera papulifolia is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Luer in 2004. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Acianthera murex.
ORIGIN: Found in central and eastern Cuba in semi open places in vegetation of the mogotes or charrascales at elevations of 200 and 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ascending to pendent, enveloped below the middle by 1 to 2 scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, triangular in transverse section, broadly ovate to suborbicular, rounded to obtuse, shortly apiculate, green and verrucate on the upper side, green and rough on the lower side; base obtuse to rounded; margin irregularily denticulate to profoundly crenulate leaves that blooms on a terminal, pendent or ascending, 1-5 per stem, .6 [1.5 cm] long, glabrous, successively few-flowered, inflorescence subtended at the base by a conduplicate, carinate and crenate sheath with an annulus with two or three bracts;.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [2 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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