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Orchid Species: Humboltia lindenii

Kew currently accepted name is Pleurothallis lindenii

Humboltia lindenii is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis lindenii.
Genus
Humboltia (Humboltia.)
Grex
lindenii
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) Kuntze
Year
1891
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ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet, cold, cloud forests at elevations of 2600 to 3350 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with slender, stout, erect ramicauls with a sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the cuneate base leaf that blooms at most anytime of the year on an arcuate then pendant, slender, laxly few to several flowered, racemose, 1.2 to 4 [3 to 10 cm] long inflorescence arising through a spathe with infundibular floral bracts.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths lindenii 1843 Lindl.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths andrei 1996 Luer & R.Escobar
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths araguensis 1922 Ames
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths pendula 1924 Schltr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pths. lindenii 'Esperanza' (2013) Pths. lindenii 'Trader's Point' (1997)
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