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Orchid Species: Notylia orbicularis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Notylia orbicularis is an orchid species identified by A.Rich. & Galeotti in 1845.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador at elevations of 180 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an oval to elliptic, laterally compressed, rather ancipitous edged, longitudinally rugose to grooved pseudobulb partially enveloped below by several, triangular, conduplicate sheaths with the uppermost being leaf-bearing and and carrying a single, apical, erect, thick, rigid, leathery, conspicuously wrinkled and channeled above along the midvein, prominently keeled below, apically rounded, narrowing below into the petiolate-like base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect to arching, to 12 [30 cm] long, closely spaced, cylindrical, many flowered, racemose inflorescence,.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.4 cm] tall
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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