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Odontoglossum weirii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1875. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cyrtochilum weirii.
ORIGIN: Found in Cundinamarca Colombia on moss covered branches of trees and shrubs in upper cloud forests or paramo at elevations of 2700 to 3500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing, caespitose, bifoliate lithophyte, on cliff faces, or epiphyte with ovate, slightly laterally compressed, slightly longitudinally rugose with age pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by 2 pairs of disitichous, imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, broadly lanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into the petiole-like base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer in Bogota' on an axillary, 30 [75 cm] long, erect then arching to pendulous, to 7 branched, fractiflex, short, widely spaced branches each carrying 3 to 5 flowers, central apex racemose, to 40 flowered inflorescence that arises on a newly matured pseudobulb and carrying weakly scented flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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