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Brachtia verruculitera is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1920. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Brassia andina.
ORIGIN: A small sized, cool to cold growing, Colombian, Ecuadorean and Peruvian miniature epiphyte found in temperate cloud forests at altitudes of 1200 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small sized, cool to cold growing, Colombian, Ecuadorean and Peruvian miniature epiphyte found in temperate cloud forests at altitudes of 1200 to 2800 meters that has a creeping rhizome with ancipitous, narrowly oblong ovate pseudobulbs subtended and enveloped by several, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths above and scarious bracts below that carry a single, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic, obtuse leaf that basally is contracted into a petiole and blooms in situ in Ecuador in the winter and early spring on a basal from the leaf axils, erect, 8 [20 cm] long raceme, equaling the length of the leaf and arising on a mature pseudobulb, with glumaceous, inflated floral sheaths and many long-lasting, fleshy flowers that droop and are two ranked along the inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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