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Odontoglossum crispatulum is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1864. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Gomesa crispa.
ORIGIN: Found in Goias, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cool growing, medium sized epiphyte with narrowly oblong-conical, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying 2, erect-spreading, membraneous, narrowly ligulate-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, long attenuate below leaves that blooms in the summer through the autumn on a pendant, 8 [20 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers and is an evergreen species that requires even water and fertilizer year round.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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