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Psittacoglossum cucullatum is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Szlach. & Sitko in 2012. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria cucullata.
ORIGIN: Found from Mexico south to Ecuador at elevations ranging from 700 to 3300 meters in damp rain or mist forests.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte with a small pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by several scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear to oblong elliptic, coriaceous, obtuse or rounded apically, basally conduplicate leaf that has variable foliage and flowers borne through the axils of the several, distichous sheaths subtending the clustered, ovoid-oblong, compressed pseudobulbs that blooms on a 5 to 15 [7.5 to 37 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and that has scarious-fibrous bracts that almost completely cover the peduncle and fragrant flowers and occurring in the fall and early winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 to more than 3 1/2 inches [4 to 9 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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