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Pteroon pterygiophorum is an orchid species identified by (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Diodonopsis pterygiophora.
ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia Colombia in woodlands at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate-linear, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, weak, suberect, .6 to 1 [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and has a thin tubular floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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