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Orchid Species: Otoglossum arminii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Otoglossum arminii is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia Colombia, Venezuela and northern Brazil in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing epi-terrestrial orchid with, roots that entwine at the base of dense surrounding vegetation and do not enter the ground and has a tough creeping rhizome giving rise to ovate, laterally compressed, smooth pseudobulbs partially enveloped by 2 to 3, lowermost leafless and uppermost leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, minutely bilobed, rounded, narrowing into a conduplicate short, petiole-like base leaf that blooms on an axillary, erect, 12 [30 cm] long, few to several [5 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising in the winter and early spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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