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Orchid Species: Chondroscaphe merana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Chondroscaphe merana is an orchid species identified by (Dodson & Neudecker) Dressler in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in central Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a loose, fan of several distichous, narrowly oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, becoming conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, 3.2 [8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with paired floral bracts, the outermost, infundibular, broadly ovate, acute and the innermost one is lanceolate and acute.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.6 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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