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Acronia peculiaris is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Luer in 2005. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis peculiaris.
ORIGIN: Found in Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 shorter tubular sheaths and a longer one below the middle and carrying a single, apical acutely deflexed, dull green, indistinctly purple spotted, coriaceous, narrowly cordate-ovate, acuminate and curved above the middle, basally sessile and deeply cordate with incurved lobes leaf that blooms on a fascile of successive single flowered inflorescence arising through an erect to suberect, conduplicate spathe and has a nonresupinate flower held close against the leaf base.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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