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Kraenzlinella echinocarpa is an orchid species identified by (C.Schweinf.) Luer in 2004. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Acianthera echinocarpa.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Peru in dry montane woods at elevations of 1600 to 2150 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, terete, erect ramicauls enveloped at the base by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptica, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later fall and winter on a stout, 6.4 [16 cm] long, loose, distichous, subflexuous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising through a small spathe and has oblique, acute, compressed floral bracts and a densely echinate ovary..
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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