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Orchid Species: Rossioglossum krameri
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Rossioglossum krameri is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2008.
ORIGIN: Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in premontane forest and coffee plantations at elevations of 600 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovate elliptic, strongly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by non-foliaceous bracts and carrying a single apical, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute leaf with a short petiole [unique to this species] that blooms in the spring through winter on a lateral, 4" [10 cm] long, racemose, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence. The variety presented here occurring on the Atlantic slope is var. smithianum (Rchb. f.) Christenson 1991, the other variety has violet flowers and is found most often on the Pacific slope.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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