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Cyclopogon epiphyticum is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cyclopogon epiphyticus.
ORIGIN: Found from Colombia and Ecuador in lower cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fasiculate, thick, fleshy, long-pubescent roots and a basal rosette of ovate to elliptic, acute, coppery-green leaf with white spots that taper basally into a slender petiole that blooms in the spring through fall [late winter through spring in the Northern Hemisphere] in situ on an erect, terminal, to 8 [20 cm] long, glabrous, bracteolate, many flowered, racemose inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/12 inches [2mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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