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Ornithidium pendens is an orchid species identified by (Pabst) Senghas in F.R.R.Schlechter in 1993. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria pendens.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil in the general Amazon area at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte with a hard, elongate, terete stem enveloped completely by many tubular, imbricate bracts and giving rise to an elliptic, laterally compressed, sulcate with age pseudobulb and carrying a single, apical, strap-shaped, acute, conduplicate below into the base leaf and blooms in the fall in Brazil from between the leaves of a newly matured pseudobulb on a fascile of several flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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