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Paphinia tigrina is an orchid species identified by (Linden ex Lindl.) B.S.Williams in 1862. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Houlletia tigrina.
ORIGIN: Found at elevations of 800 to 2200 meters in rain and cloud forest from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid-pyriform, lightly rugose pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious, triangular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptical, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base leaf and blooms on a basal, pendant, about 4 [10 cm] long and shorter than the leaves, one to few flowered, brown or reddish, sheathed inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers occurring in the spring and fall and arising on a mature pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 1/2 inches [3.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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