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Burlingtonia refracta is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1853. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Rodriguezia refracta.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte of wet montane forests at elevations of 400 to 450 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte of wet montane forests at elevations of 400 to 450 meters with an ellipsoid to ovate-oblong, laterally compressed, sulcate pseudobulb with a few, basal, dry sheaths and a single, apical, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous, dull green leaf that has a conduplicate petiole and blooms in cultivation (US) in the early fall on a short, pendant, single to few [1 to 7] flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves and has tubular flowers with a fragrance of Potato Beetle.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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