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Scelochilus ottonis is an orchid species identified by Klotzsch in 1841. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Comparettia ottonis.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela and Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 980 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, short, dark green pseudobubls enveloped basally by several, disticous, imbricating acute, leafless sheaths and carrying a sinlge, apical, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, leathery, laterally compressed apically to form a acute tip and a sharply keeled dorsal side leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect to spreading, basal, racemose to 12 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb throught the axil of a basal sheath carrying flowers that do not open well.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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