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Pterichis costaricensis is an orchid species identified by Ames & C.Schweinf. in 1930. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pterichis habenarioides.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador in cloud forests on rock faces in sandy soils at elevations of 2700 to 3300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial on verticle cliff walls with a single [drawing shows 2], narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, tapering below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, pubescent, loosely to subdensely, 4 to 15 flowered, racemose inflorescence remotely several sheathed and with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous to occasionally sparingly puberulent especially near the margins floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [1.9 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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