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Phymatidium paranaense is an orchid species identified by Samp. in 1916. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Phymatidium delicatulum.
ORIGIN: Found in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo state Brazil often occurring on small mossy tree trunks at elevations around 150 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic orchid with an erect, branched stem carrying several, ensiform, falcate, subulate, usually somewhat twisted and asymmetric, semiterete, subterete to somewhat three angled, pale green leaves that blooms in the fall in situ on few to several, finely papilloseto 4 [10 cm] long, zigzag, few to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with several, widely spaced, decurrent, thickish, subulate sterile bracts and similar floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/5 inch [0.5 cm.]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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